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auntiemeeshBefore I left work tonight, I checked my schedule (always posted on Thurs) for next week. So sweet! To preface, I normally work full-time, forty hours a week, generally 10-6 pretty much every day. I have three weeks left and seven personal days that I'm going to lose if they aren't used. So when the woman who does scheduling mentioned that she might have to cut some hours in the room, I told her I'd be perfectly happy to lose some hours and use up those personal days. So, my schedule for next week: M-T 2-6, W 11-6, Th-F 2-6. So much better than this week, when she had me working odd, early shifts in order to not cut my hours. 8:30 on a Monday morning, when I never work before ten? That's just not the sort of schedule you want to be hit with on a day when your entire body is in PMS overdrive (yes, last Thursday was a good time to not be near me).
It's been difficult at work, trying to hand things over to the new team leader and support her in the ways she wants to do things, make sure I'm answering all of her questions, and not feel like my toes are being stepped on when she starts taking over duties that I consider to be mine. She's taking everything very seriously and trying her best to figure everything out, but she doesn't have very much experience and I sometimes think it might have been better for the directors to have hired someone a little more mature for the position. Most likely that's just me, though, smarting cause she's stepped on my toes more than once in some painful and public ways.
It's getting easier to step back though, and I think working part-time for these last few weeks (provided it's not a one time thing) will make that process much more smooth. If I'm not there as much, it will be easier to distance myself from the decision-making. It's funny in a way, it was really hard when I first started this job, five years ago. I was hired as the team leader, but the old team leader was still there the first three months, transitioning me in, and I had to sit back and let her do the leader thing and just get a feel for the room and the job, and then become the team leader overnight when she left. That was terribly difficult for me and for my co-workers - many of whom resented me for being brought in from outside the center. I think the way it's being worked this time around must be much easier for the woman who is replacing me because she's been working in the room for a year already and I'm really trying to let her assume as much of the leadership now, as she wants or can take. But it makes it harder for me than it was for the woman I replaced, I think, because she didn't have to stay in the room after I took over. While she was there, she was the head teacher. Maybe I'm just too nice.
It's been difficult at work, trying to hand things over to the new team leader and support her in the ways she wants to do things, make sure I'm answering all of her questions, and not feel like my toes are being stepped on when she starts taking over duties that I consider to be mine. She's taking everything very seriously and trying her best to figure everything out, but she doesn't have very much experience and I sometimes think it might have been better for the directors to have hired someone a little more mature for the position. Most likely that's just me, though, smarting cause she's stepped on my toes more than once in some painful and public ways.
It's getting easier to step back though, and I think working part-time for these last few weeks (provided it's not a one time thing) will make that process much more smooth. If I'm not there as much, it will be easier to distance myself from the decision-making. It's funny in a way, it was really hard when I first started this job, five years ago. I was hired as the team leader, but the old team leader was still there the first three months, transitioning me in, and I had to sit back and let her do the leader thing and just get a feel for the room and the job, and then become the team leader overnight when she left. That was terribly difficult for me and for my co-workers - many of whom resented me for being brought in from outside the center. I think the way it's being worked this time around must be much easier for the woman who is replacing me because she's been working in the room for a year already and I'm really trying to let her assume as much of the leadership now, as she wants or can take. But it makes it harder for me than it was for the woman I replaced, I think, because she didn't have to stay in the room after I took over. While she was there, she was the head teacher. Maybe I'm just too nice.
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Date: 2005-05-05 11:47 pm (UTC)I think I know a little of how you feel. I`m not much looking forward to someone going in and doing my job (even if I don`t want it back) when its still mine. It`s not that I don`t want the job done, it`s more that this new person now will see all the things I wasn`t any good at or had time to do while there and i`m afraid the co-workers will be mroe happy with the new person than they were with me (not including boss here).
*crosses fingers that your last weeks will go smoothly*
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Date: 2005-05-06 05:17 am (UTC)It's never easy to be replaced, even when we no longer want the position. It would be easier for me if the new team leader didn't come until after I'd left, but that isn't the best thing for the room, so I suppose my desires have to come second. Thanks for your good thoughts. :)
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Date: 2005-05-06 06:26 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2005-05-07 07:45 am (UTC)I'm looking forward to seeing you next weekend!
*hugs*