Around March 2021 I was informed by the powers that be that my position at work would de made redundant. In fact, what happened was that the entire department got restructured, and a lot of people got shuffled around. I was given two options, none of them immediately appealing to me : the first was to go to a different team altogether, but the stuff they were tasked with doing I found to be anathema to me and my mental health. Second option would be to return to my old team. I naturally chose that one, I knew the team, I knew the job and knew I could easily excel at it, so it became like the lesser of two evils.
In theory it seemed as if this 'demotion', so to speak, would be bad for me financially, but it indeed proved to be otherwise. Because I was working from home, it meant that I ended up putting a lot more hours than I normally would, and every bit of extra work added to my productivity, which directly impacted how much more I'd be getting as a bonus every month.
Before I went back, though, I had to train a new batch of people that were coming into the team I would soon be leaving. It was, after all, my duty to do so as long as I was part of that team, and I tried to impart as much knowledge and to leave the newbies as well prepared as I could. They'd soon be someone's headaches, and not mine...
In a sense, I didn't really mind leaving that team. The last few months I'd spent there weren't really good, and it seemed to me that I had been unwillingly placed on a collision course with one of the knowledge management supervisors, who had taken a look at the content I had created, and deemed it to be quite divergent from what the guidelines stated. Trouble was, I created content the way I had been taught by her bosses, and I'd never heard a peep abouy my work not being up to par.
It was like I had been taught a new language by the native speakers, and I was able to clearly communicate with them, only for an outsider to tell me that I was taught the wrong language, and here's how it really is - too bad for me I really couldn't seem to grasp her explanations. She'd often ask me to create some test content so she could review it, and they never passed muster. We were at odds more often than not.
My return to my old team went swimmingly - though some things had decidedly changed since 2019, and I had to get used to how some things were now done. But none of it was hard, nothing was complicated and nor did it it hold any secrets to me. I had to do things I'd done thousands of times by then, so at a certain point muscle memory takes over.
As a warning, and considering we're fast approaching the present time, be aware that everything now will be extremely dull. Nothing new, or indeed, nothing much actually happened in my life.
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