Fri, 18 Apr 2008
Infectious Weirdness
Things have been odd lately- mostly at work. There seems to be very little morale, or maybe people are just in a bad mood. A colleague was telling me that during an interview a candidate she was speaking with had asked how the corporate culture was. She asked - "do people go out for happy hours?". She wanted to say, "yeah, there are a lot, we have them whenever someone leaves."
In fact there was a happy hour the previous night- two people had given notice or were leaving. They seemed to be the happiest people at the bar. Granted, 99% of the people had come straight from work and I had gone home first (on my bike) so I was late and had some 'catching up' to do. I'm not saying everyone was bitter, but it wasn't the most positive group I've hung out with in a while. I'm sure I was the same way later, although I only had 1.5 hefeweisens. I guess all of this has been on my mind a lot lately. I've been extremely stressed out just with my normal workload (which keeps expanding) in the past few weeks. And to add to that, when I found out that another colleague of mine had given notice, I was really bummed out. I'm happy for him/her, and I'm sure he/she is going to a cool new gig, but it really made me sit back and think- "hrm, should I be updating my resume too?" I don't like thinking about stuff like that, for the most part I'm in a great spot but things have changed around me. The biggest reason I hate this situation is because when I want to talk about it with friends, it sounds like I'm whining- in a way I am, but I don't want to just constantly whine. Everyone needs something to whine/bitch about with their jobs (that's why they pay us to show up), but not everyone else likes to hear about it. Okay, end of venting . . . 18 Apr 00:07 | /rants_and_raves | 6 comment(s)
