Karen’s Place

Today-April 18^th was my 20^th anniversary at work. 20 years! Dang! I never thought I would be able to look back at anything and say I’d been anywhere for that long. It hardly seems possible. I’m not sure if I’m loyal, crazy or just afraid of change. Whatever the reason, I’m still there and especially now have no plans of going anywhere.

In my job I work very closely with my manager and my director, both who I will be very sad to leave when I move on to the new department. This manager is the best I’ve had in many years and the director? Well, I told him the other day. “Scarecrow, I think I’ll miss you most of all”. He’s a very quiet person, so much so that when I first started working for him and took him concerns I didn’t think he was listening and thought they wouldn’t be addressed. He would just sit there and let me vent, all the while being almost completely silent. I used to leave that office SO frustrated! Then some time down the road, maybe a month maybe a couple of weeks I would realize my issue was either resolved or in the process of being resolved. He was listening the whole time; he just never felt the need to fuel the fire. That in my opinion is good management.

I was talking to my manager this morning and told her my director stopped by my desk and informed me he and my future boss had met and decided I wasn’t going to be allowed to transfer after all. I told him that was okay, would I still get my raise? He just laughed. My manager got really serious and told me how my director feels this is bitter sweet for him. She said he told her he feels this is a huge loss for them but he also couldn’t hold me back. She told me he would never admit it to me, but he was going to miss me. Then she got choked up. And yes, to all of you out there who may think his thoughts would be less than honorable. He is just my boss. In fact, many of the things he says and does remind me so much of my brother. Maybe that’s why I like him so much. I guess what I’m getting at, with all of this. Because trust me, I’m not one that usually goes on like this about myself is that you never know who in your life you are impacting. If you are happy with the person you are representing yourself as, chances are others will be too.

I took a half day off today to switch a lot of my utility services around. For the past few years I’ve had digital phone, and I’ve always had cable. I took the leap and switched back to a land line and then had a satellite installed. By doing this I will save $50 a month. I hope it will be worth it. People either love or hate satellites. Most of the people I’ve talked to love it. The ones who haven’t liked it have been due to the programming (or lack thereof). So far, I think I have more channels then before, that could be an optical illusion though since the channels are in absolutely no recognizable order. I’m still trying to discover where everything is. I’m a little disappointed in the program guide. It won’t load programs for Monday, this coming up Monday. This could be a product of it being a brand new system though. I’ll give it a few days to catch up and get information loaded. I will say this though; my picture quality is 10X better than it was with the cable! I was seriously considering getting a new television because I thought it was going out. Nope, this signal makes the television look brand new. Nice! I’ll check back in a couple of weeks and see if I’m still satisfied.

Everyone have a great weekend. It’s freezing right now and has been drizzling all day, but Sunday it’s supposed to be 76 degrees!! I’m so happy!