Oh wow, what a rollercoaster week. Let me take you thru it really quick:
Tuesday (Noon), get new tires for the Jeep.(sounds unimportant now, but wait)
Tuesday 5ish-driving home: Get a call from my recruiter telling me that my contract will be up on Friday. This Friday.
Tuesday Night: Drink beer. Go to Pandora's just to sit.
Wednesday: Get kinda weepy. In the Jeep I think about how wierd it is to loose your job and not be walked like all the times I've been thru layoffs. This is the nature of layoffs.
Thursday: Everyone at work finds out. They plan a lunch for me. These folks have not invited me to lunch in the last 3 months, so this is interesting. This going away stuff if sinking in and we're joking about all the work that I took off my friend's shoulders is getting piled right back on.
Friday: Get a call from my recruiter that he has a job for me. With this company. For another five weeks. Yes, I'll take it....interesting news, I tell those around me. I talk to my supervisor who confirms the whole thing.
Right before my "Formerly Going Away" lunch she calls me to tell me to keep it hush hush. ...okay, so I tell everyone that is around not to say anything. All these people had gathered for my "Farewell" lunch then my "welcome back" lunch and now my "we have to keep it quiet" lunch.At the restaurant one person insists on paying for mine...no no no, yes, it's okay....no, you really don't understand!! okay fine, go on and pay. (I tried to warn her!)
After lunch,a close coworker is told that today is his last day. so my farewell was not a farewell and it could have been his, but it wasn't. Weird. Can you say "Awkward!" Turns out I am taking his position.
We go thru transitioning his work to me and he leaves, more like sneaks out, it's sad. I feel weird. I round the corner into another set of cubes and a sweet girl hands me a little white gift bag. "What's this for".."cuz you're leaving"...awkward again. Someone peeks their head out of their cube and starts giggling which makes me start giggling. "I don't think you want to give me this, I'll be here on Monday." She takes the present back and the nice person who bought my lunch finds out and I will gladly buy her lunch. We all had a good laugh, but thank goodness I didn't have school, I was stressed beyond belief. Count my blessings is all I can do.
So, I am back at work on Monday for the next 5 weeks, this gives me time for find something else.
The End, I hope.
