AT PEACE.....SORT OF

On my second day back at work, I was briefed about the major re-structuring/realignment exercise that would be taking place in the department.

In my books, change is a dirty word. In the modern society which embraces getting out of your comfort zone, innovation, and new technology, I am the anomaly. In earlier years, I would have been the manager who does not want the records to be computerised, the old foggy who thinks email is the invention of the devil.

I am most skeptical of corporate change engineering. Or strategic planning, or paradigm shifts. Maybe I just have been reading too many Scott Adams writings and his Dilbert strips (As an aside, if I could find a Dilbert in real life, I might just marry him on the spot). All the much touted re-engineering processes and methods just seem like so many money making scams by business consultants well versed in semantics, stating the obvious. The results seem to be a mixed bag from what I have seen so far.

Despite all my anti-change grouses above, this is one restructuring that I welcome, because it has opened up opportunities that would end my misery for the last one year. Things are still being settled though and any movement for me is still in the pipework. In a nutshell, it involves people who want me on their team, people who don't want me on their team, people who want me to be on the team I want to be, and people whose aim in life is to make sure I don't get where I want to go (just out of orneryness). It is a mish mash of push-pull factors which are currently rather balanced. I am just keeping all my fingers and toes and all crossable body parts crossed.

I would say that, on the whole, things are looking up. And I at least have alternative plan A and plan B in place, after all that soul searching. So, despite the upheaval at work, I am currently, to quote SB, "at peace...sort of".