Day Twelve
Given my exhaustion, facial injury, and sunburn I stayed in my cubicle most of the day. For some reason I felt like crying all day. Maybe it was irritation from the chlorine at Splashdown, maybe it was the issues brought up by the Mark post I’ve been working on, maybe I’m just tired.
A couple folks from my former department came to invite me to lunch. The moment they made the offer all of the computers in their department site-wide went down. It was a radio hailstorm. I offered to look after a location but they managed on their own and an hour later we went for lunch.
Ran into my former manager on my way to dinner but she was so busy we hardly spoke.
Found out one of my former staff applied for the opening in my department. That’s a minor relief given the current job market.
I tried to fix a broken computer in my former department but for the first time this fair I couldn’t resolve the issue. So much for my debit machine voodoo.
But it turns out IT couldn’t fix it either and declared it permanently dead.
Of course as I was leaving I helped a guest my former department was having some difficulty with. Afterwords he suggested I work in their department instead. “I did, for 9 years” I said. He was surprised.
“Are you sure leaving was the right choice?” he asked “you have a talent for it.”
Funny. Everyone seems to have an opinion on the subject.
