So, yeah, weekly staff meeting conference call today. No one, and I mean no one had anything to say. Our new manager started yesterday, and she was in on the call, but really, I don’t think her presence had anything to do with the near deafening silence. I don’t have anything to say in these meetings anymore once I realized that it just went in one ear and out the other, I think that everyone else has caught on, too.
In a little over a year, we’ve lost 6 people in our department, and another is transitioning out right now. (I’m not counting the revolving door action we had on newbies there for a couple months.) 5 of the 7 have at least stayed with the company. People are actually taking bets and asking me when I am going elsewhere.
Thing is, I don’t want another job - I like this one. I like the work I do, and I’m good at it. Sure, I’m not stupid, I am keeping my ear to the ground just in case, but I’m not actively looking or trying to scout anything out.
What I want is for management to clue in. For them to actually acknowledge in some tangible fashion what we’re doing and the conditions we’re doing it under. We get some mumbled words in passing, but they don’t cut it. The group is really getting beaten down, and it feels like management is just letting it happen without so much as a sideways glance, or worse, jerking us around even further. It’s sad, really.
But management isn’t gonna change, so I need to figure out how to best deal with this nonsense short of going to another department. So far, working on having a life outside of work has helped immensely.
Dammit, I was gonna post this f-locked, but I can’t get my thoughts together enough to make it readable.
In short, paycheck player time.
