'ello again ....

So here I am, 5 months on from the above post and my world has gone a little mental.

I left my old job and despite my statement that I'd be able to post diatribes about my ex-bosses and their style of management I really haven't felt the interest in doing so. Still, I may yet when things quiten down around here. I'm also a tad disappointed, though I should have expected it, that only two of my old work colleagues have even bothered or attempted to stay in touch. I guess that's how life goes ... you leave and you move on. However, for me I thought it was different. I don't think I am indispensible, but I do know that the service I oversaw as a junior supervisor is now falling to pieces - and that is no blame on the poor lad they've shoved in my place. I've offered my help until I'm blue in the face but he prefers, it would seem, to go it alone and I wish him the best of British. This isn't about me being better than him .... I'm bigger and better than that sort of petty mindedness ... but it is about seeing that somebody who's ben dropped into a role they are not ready for has every advantage they can possibly get to do their job.

Met up wit my old Kiwi mucker the other day and discussed his role and how things are going. He's good, but one question about the legacy I left to his work area sent the technician he's in charge of (formerly the only tech at this place who became a total stress bunny) into fits of "I could sue you for comments like that". What did I say .... I asked how his network was these days. I say, "sue me anyway and see where it gets you" because it won't work. I have nothign to do with the cause of his stress and if he is unable to cope with being outside of his workplace and asked a question about it - THEN he shouldn't go places where people can ask him questions.

But I bet this PC nanny state would come down on his side - the lazy, work skiving, no good layabout that he is. Now, is that defamation of character if it's true? Hmmm. Whatever, he doesn't read this and neither does anyone else as I use this in a cathartic way .....