I talked to my old boss (let's call him BB for his initials from now on) again on Friday and after telling him I was mad at him, he said he just wanted me to know what was going on so I wouldn't be blindsided by my new boss. And I think he means it. And if what he's saying is true, and I have no reason to believe it isn't, she's dangerous.And then I suggested meeting with the department manager (essentially my boss's boss), who took over a few months ago. BB thought meeting with her was a good idea. He proofread the e-mail I wrote her about discussing my career plans and goals. And now I have an appoinment with her on Wednesday. For all I know, my new boss could be giving her a negative perspective on me so I'm going to meet with her and show her how fabulous I am. I know I make a good impression in interviews and one-on-ones so I'm confident about this. I also took another step to save myself and met with an upper level bus!n3ss An@Iyst who I know at work and asked her if she would be a reference for me on the new job I applied for. She was there when I gave a demonstration to a bunch of IT people about the mechanics of my job. And since communicating and working with IT is some of what the position entails, and she thought the demonstration went really well, I thought she'd be a good person to speak up for me. And she was really enthusiastic and said she would.So had all this shit on my mind, but I continued to study, and ended up actually feeling pretty decent going into the technology test. Which I'm pretty sure I failed. Seriously. I will be relieved to get a D, but an F is pretty likely. If the test just required identifying stuff and giving some explanations of how things worked, it would have been all right. But the main part of the test were questions which required you to apply knowledge and "be" technical, not just know what stuff is and how it works. And I'm just not there yet, and more studying would not have gotten me there. Well, maybe on a couple of questions it would have, but not most of them.After the test was over, one of the people I'm friendly with said, "I think I failed it" and I said I thought I failed it too. After class, she and the others who I consider "my girls" walked back to our cars together. Unfortunately, our professor ended up walking with us so we couldn't really talk. Me and the other person who said she failed walked ahead a bit, and talked. She said there was something she couldn't really say right then (because our professor was right behind us talking with the other two girls) and I asked her to e-mail me. Then she said sometimes she thought of dropping out of the program. And I said things at work really sucked right now and I feel that this program is my ticket out. And then I even cried a little. She apologized for "making me cry" but I said it wasn't her fault. She said she'd send me an e-mail.Labels: school, the blues, work posted by Miss Rachel 11/11/2007 08:20:00 AM . . .
Labels: school, the blues, work
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