No, I haven't been blogging of late.. mostly because my laptop won't allow me to sign in to the blog account to write, it has a "tick" when I try of a repeating screen telling me it's redirecting me.. I haven't had the time to take it to the Geeks at the Geeks squad and ask "WHY"... someday, it's the only problem with it at this point..
So I will steal a few moments on Gregs computer at 5am while he is still sleeping, and I have become wide awake.. Strange, while I can get up early for the necessary things, it's not my prime part of the day.. but I was awake long before I normally get up to walk (which not doing today)... but hey, it's a start for me to not try capturing that all important last few minutes of sleep that don't seemingly help anyway..
It's been a long time since I last wrote on this blog and while much has gone on since, going back to work has been the biggee.
I returned to work on Thursday March 18 with much nervousness but yet a feeling of so glad to be able to actually "do it". After all that has gone on in the last 8.5 months since I walked out the UPS facility on a Friday June 26 thinking it would be 6-8 weeks or so and I'd be good as new and walking back in.. It would actually be about 18 weeks before I'd actually feel humanly alive, feeling good as new was farther down the road and on many days, something I'm still waiting for.
When I arrived in my office which is 485 steps from the parking lot and 2.5 flights of stairs, I walked into my large office and felt like a freshman college student on campus for the first day and no idea where I was to go, or where my first class was.... I had really forgotten so much of all of what my routine had once been, what I was to do first. I had to have a text msg the day before from co-worker who did a couple of reports coverage, as to what my current password was for my ID just to log in to my own computer.
Okay so Thurs/Fri were laid back just getting my feet wet, looking through emails (good grief) and than on Monday...... They all knew I was back and the flood of information, and requests for "pick me, pick me" to take on projects bigger than just one person began. Aw and so by Tuesday, the repressed memory of STRESS was realized and along with it came the "now I remember" that feeling of being job burnt out had been so strong before I had to exit. My job is basically keep all the Hub Mgrs and IE Planners happy in organized sort/load/small in paper sort materials of zipcode splits to inform the employees of what goes where.. and when changes come in I take care of that in whatever way it affects the splits. And than I imput it into the Computer training database for each building. Now each building is a separate enitity unto itself in information based on time in transit capabilities for the most part. One person all buildings.. Me.
So in the two weeks I have been back, I have been working alot of hours, taking things home to proofread (in 5 font no less) in order to be ahead of the game the next day when I come in. And I've only scratched the surface of just keeping up on Volume Flow changes for the So Cal District that I walked into a deadline on. So been busy inputting data into the training database, auditing what's been neglected. I came across the "mistakes" having been made by the IE Planners in taking care of their own materials for the employees, tracking down answers to my questions, them verifying "your right, that's why we missed you".. But in the end, they have greatly appreciated the job I do for them and the "knowledge" of zipcodes and my ability to catch their mistakes quickly.. One even called me the queen of zipcodes.. hee hee
Job security, which at this stage of the economy can be a day to day thing. Two weeks before I returned, my section mgr called me. Now mind you, I was at the Arcadia Arboretum with Marlys and the ducks near the pond were squaking like crazy and I had to get to a place where I could even hear him.. But it came out like this.. "I'm going to read to you......... and the jist was that "Administrative Assistant layoffs nationwide were going to be occuring, as the number of districts is reduced from 43 to 20 and the number of regions from 5 to 2... and in the end, there may be some job eliminations, layoffs, or early retirement pkgs, but more information will be forth coming".
Only a trickle of info that only tells you more info is coming... is what we have heard since. One bit of knowledge I do have is this.. I have worked all 28 years in what is called the SoCal District. The northern building is Cerritos where I work out of and it goes south and east to include Anaheim, Laguna, San Marcos, San Diego, Chula Vista, El Centro, Palm Springs, and the airports that surround these facilities as well. So they are redistricting by consolidating all of California into three districts.. Cerritos will now become part of Central District which will encompass all building north up to Fresno.. Hence majority of my work will not be in my new district!!!!??????? I am KNOWN in my District, in CENTRAL I will feel vulnerable amongst peeps that don't know what I'm capable of.. (ha, just thinking outloud)
So therein lies the question, what will I be doing? My section mgr just says, keep doing what you've always done until someone in authority tells you otherwise.. He's not sure where or what he will be doing yet either. They too are on pins and needles, they have more to lose as there commutes should they be moved even into LA buildings could be horrendous. Many live based on being located in the area suited to any of the buildings in So Cal.. But for management a district is a district and you can be moved at their discretion...
All that to say is that I have been designated Central (remaining in Cerritos for now) but that means that the majority of what I have been doing as one person.. I'm going to a district where apparantly they have one person like me per building.. Where is So Cal I covered all of the buildings myself. HOw will this change with the process is unknown.. Those in So Cal assure me "they won't get rid of you" but while that is comforting, it's not much help coming from being farther up the food chain who decide.
Well, time to hit the shower so I can head in to the office where for now I am grateful to have a job, and my commute is still only 8 minutes... Big plus in being CENTRAL for now..
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