Welcome to couch number 23!

Now you've got an eyepatch, maybe you should start swearing again.

You coped with your last change, remember?

I swear like a sailor. T not so much. I think she's said "damn" and "********". I talked with T a couple of sessions back and said I censor myself around her. Apparently, she wants me to because she just asked me why I talk that way. I told her because I like to. She said, "okay," and that was it.

And saying "arrrr".

Yes, I've adjusted to job changes, but this one seems like I'm going backwards, forwards, and laterally all that the same time. I don't have to do it, but it's job security. I'd be working for the group home again. I'd be a group home manager, QP, AND doing program development (which includes SE and fundraising). It will put me back as a supervisor, which I had hoped to get out of completely.

Did they give you some time to think about it....weigh the pros and cons?

Until early next week. Or I can come up with another idea. Boss said he'd be willing to tell me I have a bad idea any day. He's kidding of course. He's stressed because our residential director put in her notice. It's not until January, but she is almost irreplaceable. So boss wants to move people around and change their positions. It's not just me that's affected. There's 4-5 people involved.

Id go for security.... the economy is rough. Best of luck to you.

Thanks Lola. I don't mind being a QP again, but I do NOT want to be a group home manager. That is something I have avoided like the plague because I'd have 24/7 responsibility for staff coverage. I have a couple of other ideas though. Boss doesn't want to lose me, so I may have some wiggle room.

Then take the duties of soon to be leaving woman and split em all up, your smart you'll come up with something....cant you keep your current stuff and be the overlord of the group home managers? LOL

Official title: GHM Overlord, assistant director to the man!

The residential director was manager of one of the homes. The other person we have in mind for promotion boss can't promote right now because of a complicated personnel issue (i.e. the BOD is aware of something in his personal life because another employee mailed each member about it). I'll figure out how to divvy up stuff. It also has to save the company about $4000 a month.

And no more driving to the satellite?

Unsure. No one is doing their training right now. I don't know who else would do it.

What a rotten trick! That other employee should be fired.

We can't prove she did it, so nope. He said/she said.

I'm good. I think I've figured out a solution so I dont have to be a group home manager.

I can't believe it is snowing here .

When I started it was for anxiety issues and I think she thought a few months of sessions would give me the coping skills I needed. I wasn't super open at the beginning and it took several months before I let her truly see the depression.

I missed the swearing conversation.... My t is a pastor's wife...but on rare occasions I will let something slip like p****d off or a lesser variation of the f-bomb.

What a day at work. The education person took the day off...and apparently had the wrong day down for a tour of 15 three year olds and their parents! So I did a tour off the cuff. Thank goodness they were studying circles and we could look for lots of circles on the tour. Then our director asked me to go to lunch.... turned out it was a late birthday gift and an opportunity to go over plans for our programming. The most interesting thing was I didn't get angry with the co-worker...I was kind of like "Whatever. These kids deserve a great tour and I'll do my best. She doesn't report to me and I don't have to deal with the consequences."

i'm back from T and dinner with hubby. kind of out of it. lots of hard work today.i know it doesnt seem like much but it was huge for me.i showed my T my drawings.i was terrified

That was a huge thing Granite. You rock!
How did it go?

Not that the couch has been a "hopping" place over the past couple of weeks, but thanks for those who talked to me about my work troubles. I won't be here tonight because I need to prepare my case complete with numbers that show that the company will benefit from my idea. I'll probably use an Excel spreadsheet...boss those!!

Saw Mom for birthday, uneventful except that she was pretty sick.

I also need to finish the Brene Brown book before I go to therapy tomorrow at 2pm.

Good night/day!

i am kind of freaking out about it now but am posting about it in the forum

Good job Granite.....

Tomorrow is my Friday.. I have Friday and Monday off. Soooooo looking forward to it!!!