Well, today was the first day of work without Amy. I'm so very happy for her, but I have to remind myself repeatedly that it's only for a few more weeks that I have to stick it out here alone. I was tired and grumpy at work and not feeling well, and I didn't have my e-mail buddy in the office to pass time with. :(
Meanwhile, the office is trying to adjust to having her gone. It's going to be interesting. Tom is another in our department, floats between the environmental work and the industrial hygiene (IH) work, but really wants to do IH. Keeps getting promised more IH work, but with Amy and I both leaving, though, neither Tom nor I feel he's going to be seeing much IH coming his way. Instead, he'll end up filling in environmental roles for an undetermined length of time. Very frustrating for him. He's another like me - recently out of school, trying to get some time on his resume at a 'real job', and just having to stick it out for a little more at the horrible company that let us get our foot in the door. Thankfully, he'll have a year at our company in March, about the time I leave, so hopefully that'll help get his foot in the door somewhere else, someplace where they might appreciate him a little more. It's sad that there's this mass exodus in the works in our department, but that's really just showing you how this company treats the environmental and IH staff (i.e. the 'non-engineers') We can stick around just long enough to get the experience that'll get us into jobs where they'll treat us better.
And if that wasn't enough of a Monday, some of the intra-office politics (particularly that in our department) was coming into play today too. Ridiculousness that, thankfully, I wasn't dragged into, but it's tiring when you hear it going on around you. Just a draining day.
And, if that wasn't enough of a Monday at work, I slammed my hand in a door at lunchtime. Feel like a moron about it. It was very windy today (beautiful day otherwise, though) and I was going into a store at lunchtime. A gust of wind blew by as I was going in the door and the door slammed shut, catching my hand in the door. Hurt like the dickens!!! I've got the start of a bruise across the knuckles of my right hand, and it hurt to type most of the afternoon. Feeling a bit better now, but still very sore to the touch and, like I mentioned, bruising. Good thing it was my right hand, though, and not my left, or I'd've really spent a miserable afternoon!
At any rate, I'm in the field tomorrow. Yay! I'm drilling at a site down an hour or so away from here, with lousy cell reception and enough work to keep me out of the office all day. I've got a good driller, and a straightforward site to drill. So, for at least one day this week, can escape the office and the computer with its never-ending stream of database reviews! (Yes, we're still wading through those...)
Meanwhile, the office is trying to adjust to having her gone. It's going to be interesting. Tom is another in our department, floats between the environmental work and the industrial hygiene (IH) work, but really wants to do IH. Keeps getting promised more IH work, but with Amy and I both leaving, though, neither Tom nor I feel he's going to be seeing much IH coming his way. Instead, he'll end up filling in environmental roles for an undetermined length of time. Very frustrating for him. He's another like me - recently out of school, trying to get some time on his resume at a 'real job', and just having to stick it out for a little more at the horrible company that let us get our foot in the door. Thankfully, he'll have a year at our company in March, about the time I leave, so hopefully that'll help get his foot in the door somewhere else, someplace where they might appreciate him a little more. It's sad that there's this mass exodus in the works in our department, but that's really just showing you how this company treats the environmental and IH staff (i.e. the 'non-engineers') We can stick around just long enough to get the experience that'll get us into jobs where they'll treat us better.
And if that wasn't enough of a Monday, some of the intra-office politics (particularly that in our department) was coming into play today too. Ridiculousness that, thankfully, I wasn't dragged into, but it's tiring when you hear it going on around you. Just a draining day.
And, if that wasn't enough of a Monday at work, I slammed my hand in a door at lunchtime. Feel like a moron about it. It was very windy today (beautiful day otherwise, though) and I was going into a store at lunchtime. A gust of wind blew by as I was going in the door and the door slammed shut, catching my hand in the door. Hurt like the dickens!!! I've got the start of a bruise across the knuckles of my right hand, and it hurt to type most of the afternoon. Feeling a bit better now, but still very sore to the touch and, like I mentioned, bruising. Good thing it was my right hand, though, and not my left, or I'd've really spent a miserable afternoon!
At any rate, I'm in the field tomorrow. Yay! I'm drilling at a site down an hour or so away from here, with lousy cell reception and enough work to keep me out of the office all day. I've got a good driller, and a straightforward site to drill. So, for at least one day this week, can escape the office and the computer with its never-ending stream of database reviews! (Yes, we're still wading through those...)
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