It’s What Day?
Good heavens, where did August go? It’s hard to believe it’s already the 28th.
So, the new job started last week. I’m enjoying it, but I’m swimming in information at the moment. It’s quite the transition to go from an office of <95 people who don’t need anything from you other than the occasional password reset to an office of ~200 people who need everything. Well, not really everything, but a lot more.
In the 8.5 days I’ve had the job, I have:
- welcomed 2 new employees to our division (with 4, maybe 5, new employees starting next week)
- spent over 2 hours in a workshop with attorneys to begin writing their performance plans for the upcoming year
- scrambled to find vacant offices for those new employees
- learned that I’m actually the supervisor for a staff of 4 (I have minions!)
- begun the process to hire a 5th person for my staff
- served on the panel to hire two other employees
- am serving on the panel to hire my boss’ new secretary
- and so on.
And, oh, 1/2 of my staff is on vacation this week, and one of the other two calls in sick every other day. I’ll be mentioning that at performance review time.
In personal news, the Maryland Renaissance Festival has opened for another season. My garb is all just slightly too big, but it works well enough. I need to make a new pair of pants for TSM (because he’s not quite so short anymore), a new shirt for TOH, and probably take in my stuff if I can. A lot of it would have to be completely disassembled and then reassembled to do that, and it would almost be just as easy to make new.
For the first weekend, we’ve already gotten to practice first aid skills. Hopefully there will be no more bloody injuries.
I’ve also been issued a challenge by one of my friends. It will require cunning, stealth and creativity, but I’m certainly not one to back down from a challenge.
There are still people at faire that I could go the rest of my life without running into, but such is life. I’ve been trying to get to know other people before forming opinions of them, not always successfully. There are definitely people that fall into the “first impression was the right one” category.
So, that’s pretty much it from here these days. As my new boss describes it, I’m “still trying to drink from the fire hose”.