The last few months have been difficult both personally and professionally. Things at work are tense and stressful as my company is undergoing an extraordinary restructuring that has seen us shrink from nine major facilities to five in less than a year. One of the facilities was one where I had spent fifteen months of my life installing a major computer system. I felt as if I was kicked in the stomach back in March when they announced they were closing the facility.
My department hasn’t been immune from the challenges both internal and external. My own outspokenness and refusal to do the wrong thing landed me in the dog house back in July and it’s only been with a little help from my friends that I survived. Some of these are the ones that called my nemesis a “butter face” because everything was attractive about her “but her” face. That made me laugh and made me realize I have staunch supporters.
There are the true leaders in our department who reached out a hand of friendship to me and made me realize I do have fans and supporters and that people other than me do see the insanity of what’s going on. They’re the ones who’ve commiserated with me and helped me find ways to realize that no matter what that I did the right thing. One of these folks, made it very clear that he wanted me to manage his project and made it very clear that he thought I was doing a great job. For that I will always be grateful because my self esteem and confidence had been shake and I needed someone to believe in me.
Then there is my new boss and my new management team who waged all out war to pull me out of a bad situation and into their department. They fought battles on several fronts to make this happen and they will never know exactly how grateful I am to them for helping me to escape what had become my own personal hell.
I’ve learned so many lessons from the last few months, but the most important one is that sometimes the hand of friendship comes from the most unexpected places and it always seems to come when you need it the most. So I guess I could say that I get blissed with a little help from my friends.
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