Thank you sooooo much everyone. You have no idea how much your words mean to me and how they have encouraged me to stay positive. Your good vibes are working well.
I'm doing much better now then I was the other day, still a little up and down but on the whole I'm doing okay. I do find it weird telling people I'm leaving, everyone who I have told so far are completely shocked.
Karen: I was shaken and shocked until I read your words, when I read "GIANT MISTAKE" I just cried. Not so much for being sad or shaken but because someone was out raged on my behalf. In fact one of my supervisors (who wasn't in on Wednesday) came in angry and almost crying on my behalf. I was very touch as no one has done that for me before (as the same with you karen
). Don't know if you noticed but I did an order to treat myself the same day lol. I hope my cute guy is 6ft 5", with dark hair, blue or green eyes, has a motorcycle, a few tattoos, dark sense of humour and loves reading vampire/supernatural book and simple adores me - teehee
Jen: Yeah I need to give notice, one month but we have this thing at work called the re-deployment register meaning anyone who has been made redundant are placed on it. When jobs become available, people on the register get first picks
. I have applied for a job in our Education department, (I did it in works time and they let me) so I hoping that bares fruit. If I don't have anything by the end of 31st dec, I don't have a job but I do get redundancy pay.
I did notice on my first post that I forgot to mention the redundancy is due to cutbacks (as with everyone) and I wasn't the only one. A lot of people took voluntary redundancy but basically there is/was 60 staff and 30% of our annual budget has to be saved (meaning a lot more then 30% of the staff are going). Even when I was told about the redundancy I didn't hold any hard feelings as I know it wasn't personal and cuts had to be made. I do feel very sorry for our manager who had to make all the decisions (no one wants to fire their staff) and the management team who have to help with all the redundancy work. They are lovely ladies and I will miss working with them, not to mention my team.
I will especially miss one of my supervisors, she is the most wonderful, kind and understanding women I have ever met (prier to SN and this forum
). If she asked me to jump I would say how high, you just can't buy that loyalty, I know I'm very lucky in that aspect. And my colleague who sits opposite me, we are always cracking each other up, playing little games (while doing work of course), hiding her chocolate bar or any other food laying around on her desk (teehee), trying to figure out/ investigate the new cute guy's name, not to mention singing xmas songs when it gets closer to xmas (actually we are doing it today ha ha ha ha)
Our manager did pop in yesterday to see how we were all doing which I thought was very nice of her. One of the ladies from the management team, has offered time and time again her help in filling application forms, sending us vacancies suitable for us and tips with our interview skills. In that aspect I know I'm very lucky as I know people don't get that anywhere else. She also keeps popping asking how I'm doing, she says she is just waiting for me to cry or go berserk lol (god writing this is making me cry as I know I going to miss them all lol). Not too mention the 3rd lady from the management team is always in and out to see how we are doing and has offered her help as well or if we need to talk privately about things. I never realised until now how very lucking I am to be working with these people. It's not always so red roses as with any office, but on the whole I have been very blessed.
Again thank you everyone for your kind words and I will keep you all up to date with my progress.
sorry for the long post