As we are trying to lose a bit of weight we both got up and did a 5k walk this morning with the Beef. I will never ever get bored of that sea front walk. I do keep threatening to film the whole thing and upload the walk on to YouTube so people can see how incredible. It truly is something else. Especially when the sun starts to come up over the hill behind us it is so so calm in the morning before it gets taken over by surfers. I am not really a beach sort of person, i love looking at the beach, and hearing the beach but the salt water annoys me and i hate sand.
As always with these diary entries although it is mainly good i also share things that are happening in my life as well because it is all relevant to our time here. So, today i was on a late and i got a message from someone at work asking if i was free for a call, something didn’t sound right. I have always been an anxious person at work, i have just always assumed that I’m in trouble for something. Which occasionally i am but 99% of the time i am not. I sent a message saying is everything ok, to which got blue ticked and no reply so i knew something wasn’t right at this point. I talked through possibilities with Mum and I’d had a coaching session booked in for Monday with one of the call audit people so i was a bit confused. Anyway, the phone call essentially said “the work we brought you in to do, well it isn’t going to be there anymore. So there is no work for you. We are sorry. This is your notice”. Words to that effect any way.
The funny thing being id have a conference call the day before telling us about how there is going to be lots of work soon because a new team is coming in and it may be quiet for a few weeks. I had also had a message in the morning from my old employer asking how one of the directors at our place got the number of one of his staff and approached them. So what i had been hearing is the polar opposite of the truth. Can you imagine selling someone the dream of a new job, especially in our situation 2500 miles away to then just be dropped like a stone.
It is probably one of the angriest i have ever been and to be honest i think what they have done to me has been absolutely disgraceful. The worst thing the person that approached me i had always thought a lot of, thought of them to be trustworthy. In my opinion it isn’t anything to do with work load i had some questions very early about the quality of the work that was being presented and voiced concerns over the way in which things were being done. I have spent my working life being an excellent team play and i am always happy to follow orders but what i could never do would be to raise concerns over things which are absolutely fundamentally wrong and i stand by that.
The funny thing is and this is the nature of the industry i am in, the company that was supposed to be providing the work in the the company that were no longer doing so had approached and wanted me to go and work with them. So in the space of an afternoon I’d lost my job and got a new job. To say i felt let down, betrayed and stitched up was an understatement.
But start a new job on Monday…. funny old world..
