Today will be cleanse day 2 of the second and final deep cleanse this month. It is also a work day - and I'm asking myself "what were you thinking??"
Work can be stressful - food has been my go to solution for more years than I have... well, more years than I have been working.
Today should be announcement day - one of the other gals I work with has secured a full time job in a branch near her new home and evidently they need her yesterday - her last day with us is supposed (I think) to be the 15th.
And then there is me and my role in the branch...
I took this role a little over 2 years ago (it was 2 years ago back on September 27th. The day my new job started was also the day I took possession of my house and moved in... no stress there LOL.
Last year at annual review time my boss told me that our account manager side of the branch was overstaffed by 60% (which happens to be the account manager percentage of my role) and that we would need to (as a team) ensure that we could justify my position in the branch by meeting all of out sales and retention targets. We did (I think - we just finished fiscal year end on the 31st) but we had far too much "white space" in all of our schedules through the year. As a result, things were looking shaky.
So fast forward to about a week and a half ago - my boss approached me with a proposal from our RVP. Evidently there is a branch (about an hour away) that has not been able to fill a mat leave posting and through some machinations they think to cover that with an AMCSR (Account Manager / Client Service Representative) from a branch that is about 40 minutes away. The proposal is that I go fill (for a year) the position 40 minutes away, she will go cover the other one and my role will sit open (but unfilled) for a year and then at the end of the year I have a letter guaranteeing me a full time position back up here in the Comox Valley. To sweeten the pot, they will also give me an ad-hoc increase of $2 000 to cover my gas money that will not impact my annual incremental increase - whatever it may be. Oh - and the branch is a Monday to Friday branch with no likelihood of being changed to Monday to Saturday - so that means that for the year I will also be Monday to Friday (something I haven't been since I left the Channel Islands) and will actually have real long weekends for the entire year.
The catch is that at the end of the year, though guaranteed full time work, I am not certain what I will be doing or which branch I would be doing it in. That is where there is no guarantee.
Today I should be finding out if they are going ahead with sending me to the other branch and what my start date will be. It sounds like it will be sooner rather than later - so I may only have a few weeks left in this branch myself.
Means I better get the winter tires on my car ASAP.
Also means that I will be driving during dinner time and the shakes for dinner are the perfect way to ensure I am not eating crap for dinner on my way home AND that I am also not eating at 7 PM every night.
Clouds and silver linings, right?
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