amazngj's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commencment It is with mixed emotions that I announce that I am empoloyed in a new location effective in less than two hours. Same company, different store. As I arrived at work yesterday, I was told that I had to meet the area director in Milford at three o'clock. So, I made the drive back down past my house and to the Milford store. I was nervous, there are only two reasons why your boss wants to meet you off site. Either you are going up, or going down. The way work has been going lately, I was sure I was going down for the count. But, it was a transfer, laterally, trading places with a manager at the same level, just, swapping stores. I was excited for the opportunity and new experience, I have been in the same store for three years, and I was feeling a little claustraphobic and the experiences were getting stagnant. This was my chance to rpove myself worthy of taking the next step, make fresh new impressions and break old bad habits. As I returned to work for my last day in Dover, The flip side of it hit me. I had to say goodbye. The employees I've met and lived with for these past three years were a part of me, and I had to leave them behind. I didn't know how to even tell them. There are only three employees left on my night shift who were there before I got there. One of them left before I even got to tell them anything. Everyone else was hired while I was there, and have never known a management change on their shift that effected the five days I worked. I was all they knew. There was plenty of shock and surprise as I told people, and many said they simply didn't want to be there anymore. A few cried at the end of the night, and they bought me a "Good Luck" cake. I've never had a manager that I felt that wayu about, so I was obviously touched and brought to tears myself. I really didn't realize that I had impacted all these lives. I was thinking about how I was losing fifty people I loved to work with, and I was thinking they were only losing one, but it had a much bigger reaction than I expected. It was truly an eye opening experience. Now I have to start over. I can't make the sarcastic, cynical jokes at the new store until they get to know me at the new store, and I have to gain the respect of fifty new employees. It will be uphill and I will constantly compare them to my old crew, probably the way my crew will apprehensivly criticize my replacment. I will still visit my crew, and I will always remember with love the three years we spent together. But today is a new day, and I get to start anew, from scratch and decide today how the next several monthes will play out. It's my next big adventure. I hope it measures up to how I spent my last three years. 11:40 - 20 July 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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