Work was not so good

[ailbhe]

I think I may be forced to tell people that they are redundant soon. I don't know what to do about this. What can I do about this? I don't want to do this. Can they make me do this? Do I have the courage to quit? I know that we have too many staff and that some people have to be moved, either within or outside the company. But I don't want to do this. If I start chipping away at the team I will never be able to build it up again - I simply don't have that kind of personality. Why did I have to apply for a job I didn't want just because I thought I'd be better at it than the other applicants? Now they could be going through this instead of me.

And to cap it all off, I was so upset yesterday that I got horribly drunk and spent hours talking to a couple of my team about my sexlife and the fact that I haven't had a libido for easily six months, probably more.

Phooey. I give up.

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[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

That makes it easy, then. Call them in, say "I'm sorry, but my recent conversational indiscretion makes it imperative that I let you go, effective immediately."

I can sense your hair getting pointy as we speak.

Just think -- if you didn't have this job, you'd be working *under* the incompetent who did have it.

(If people actually *are* redundant, why will you need to rebuild?)

None of this is actually as callously flip as it probably sounds. I think. [head pets]

[ailbhe]

> Just think -- if you didn't have this job, you'd be working *under* the incompetent
> who did have it.

That's a major reason I applied for it!

> (If people actually *are* redundant, why will you need to rebuild?)

The individuals themselves are not redundant, exactly - there just isn't enough work for the number of people. So I need to choose two people almost at random and get rid of them. Removing two people from the team of 8 and reshuffling their tasks to fit other people's free time (and other people do have free time, it's only me who hasn't) will irritate everyone else, just about. So I ned to patch over the cracks left by the absent two and try to squash the remains into a Good Vibrant Cohesive Team. Urgh.

Pity me, oh, pity me, etc...