margo wrote:Deb
You can always express the view that, if things weren't so f---ed up, you wouldn't be there anyway! Someone saw the need for change, it couldn't be done from within, so you were brought in to advise.
They can take that whatever way they like!
Tact was never my strong point!
Rest of your life is OK, eh? (uses Canuck-ism!)
LOL! Thing is, I was actually brought in cos they had a contract with me, and had to find something, when the new Minister refused to take on any of his predecessor's staff! I am a weird anomaly - and sort of like a strange, very clever, baby - a baby in knowledge of the nuts and bolts of where I am - and with skills nonethelesss. Normally, to be at my classification, I would have been there forever. Part of th eproblem is they cannot really understand that the lie of the land is unknown to me - most folk have been there years and years - so they keep thinking i just KNOW stuff. Partly this is great - cos I can make intentional, strategic, blunders - and make 'em look accidental.
Lots of the folk are great - and very skilled - it is just that there is chaos - and the results of long term abusive mangagement.
3 months to go.
Pay, now, is great! As is walking to work. And, I have been able to do some healing work between where I normally work and troops on the ground in the new place. And I have achieved movement, after a 12 month deadlock, in my first project.
Yes, rest of life is fine.
