My group was hived off from our previous department in the “great fallout of 2009” (TM) and today my old boss and I met with the new boss. I’m not certain what this means for us in the long run. We’ve removed a management layer – which can only be a good thing – and re-aligned with a department that I’ve always thought my group needed to be working closer with. The new boss seems approachable and “gets” a lot of the things I worry about. He doesn’t seem to want to micro-manage and wants to leave chunks of the current structure in place. I’ve worked with him and many of his team members before and know that this change is probably a good thing for my smaller group.

It occurs to me that I don’t even know the name of my new department…

For the moment nothing changes for me other than the software I’m working with and the reporting structure. I will get a new dev server and continue my daily supervision of my minions. For now. We will have a tonne of new and unexpected work resulting from the switch in LMS’s but I’m sure R and I are up to the challenge.

However, I’m just a geek and the real workers might not find the change large enough – or his knowledge of their needs and challenges strong enough -to result in permanent positive change. For the moment I choose to remain hopeful as I await additional news on the secret email front.

I know. Not so secret when I blog about it. Then again, I’ve been about as descriptive as a blank chalkboard lately.

I did have a bit of a grouchy break this afternoon. A not-so-liked co-worker was given (taking?) credit for some excellent work done by a different co-worker who wasn’t there to defend herself. So I jumped in to ensure she was recognized. Normally it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. We share credit for individual work here all the time. Today it just really bothered me and I wasn’t ready to let it go.

I have arranged to take tomorrow off to run a tonne of errands – groceries, packages for Drew, bill payments, and studying are all in the plans for my day off. I need the change of pace to refresh and be ready for whatever Monday brings.

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