Under the weather

The weather here has been nuts. Freezing cold then suddenly its like summer. In all that I caught a cold or sinus problem or whatever. So I'm not feeling all well today.

Got fed up monday, emailed A about my concerns over the new organization for work. Figured, he's supposedly got an "open door" policy and he runs the company so I'll just ask. Well given he didn't answer me until yesterday means I probably confused him. In a nutshell, all I asked was "Why do I have two managers?" Simple direct question. I got a scripted answer. A lot of "you're doing a good job" stuff. I came away with the idea that the people "in charge" had an agenda to pursue and I was in the way. I think the phrase is "collateral damage".

So now I'm a 'team lead', which means I'll get to program some, but I'll be delivering reports on what the team is doing to the managers and handing down designs and information from the managers to the team. Bear in mind, the 'team' consists of mostly me, maybe the one junior programmer and rarely, maybe the new database programmer. Oh, also, I get to do research and hand my findings over to others for them to make the designs and decisions. At least I make an ok salary.

I think the worst part is that I'll have to prove myself again. To me that's funny cause, if I changed jobs and worked somewhere else, I'd have to prove myself again. And now, after 5 years, I'm having to prove myself again but I didn't have to change companies I work for! Quite handy I suppose. At least I didn't have to fill out any new tax paperwork!

Well, I better get back to work.