I already thanked everyone for the aid\/participation last Thursday. I got smalltime hero status around here as a result of the way that went down. I’ve had a number of people stop in and congratulate me, despite a lack of firm numbers.<\/p>\n
Except?<\/p>\n
This weekend, as part of a celebration of the culmination of my efforts, and in an attempt to blow off some steam, I was going to accompany Instead, I didn’t go. Why, you ask?<\/p>\n Politics.<\/p>\n My job here (in the door) is to support the three divisions of our fund raising office – more specifically, the system on which that office depends to do their work. I have no backup technologically, and there are no backups to me in terms of business processes at the moment, due to recent turnover.<\/p>\n The VP in charge of fund raising is close personal friends with one of the event planners. We do a lot of galas. Her gala is next week. The weekend before a gala, the special events staff generally does a lot of prep work.<\/p>\n This event planner found out that I was out of town. She flipped shit, directly to the VP, who had my boss in her office in short order. Her incompetence has led to a lot of repeat work and undo-work on my part in the past, and her fear was that, because she didn’t know how to do her job, there would be nobody there to cover her ass.<\/p>\n My boss laid it on the line – I needed to be on call Saturday, during the day, regardless of where I was, but, if I was in Canada, and something came up that couldn’t be fixed via remote access, I had to fly back.<\/p>\n Needless to say, I didn’t go.<\/p>\n The problems here are many fold. In the afterglow of my success last week, my boss and I had a conversation over drinks, and he pretty much reassured me that he and I are on the same page in regards to my direction and long-term role in the organization.<\/p>\n However, that is tomorrow, today, I’m still tethered to a group who make regular demands well outside of the course of reason, and who see it as o.k. to cancel one’s personal life on account of paranoia. Today is the foreseeable future – 6-8 months before there is going to be any changes, and probably a year and change for some solid transition.<\/p>\n For the record, nothing came up over the weekend that couldn’t be handled remotely.<\/p>\n Part of me wanted to quit, right then and there, out of sheer audacity at the bold-faced selfishness of the demand. I didn’t, ultimately, out of fear of the unknown (read:finance and long-term stability). I was rampantly pissed off – I let down Now, when I finally got into a place where I can get where I want to go, under a boss who seems to help me get there, I have to stick it out, or shove off again.<\/p>\n I’m not sure what to do. I’ve spent most of the weekend looking around. I’m still not sure.<\/p>\n I have meetings this week with all the major players. That should help, or not. Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I already thanked everyone for the aid\/participation last Thursday. I got smalltime hero status around here as a result of the way that went down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[294],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-disgruntled","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}