I am completely clear to start my new job. My background check and drug test are all clean. No surprise there, but I was having anxiety. And you guys. The number of people from the new company who have reached out has been amazing. I’ve gotten texts, emails, and LinkedIn messages welcoming me. Considering they are bringing me in as a VP, I was relieved. I could see there being some hurt feelings from people.This company doesn’t often bring people in at such a high level.
So old job continues to remind me why I’m leaving. I think I told you all that HR had reached out three times to do an exit interview. The VP of HR used to be a very close friend of mine. Then frankly she decided I couldn’t do anything to help her career, and I had my own kids so couldn’t devote all my time doting on hers, so she had no other use for me. It really hurt. I haven’t ever had a close friendship end. I’m really careful about who I let in my life, and I’m generally a good judge of who deserves a special place in my life.
So anyway, last night I got a breezy message saying it’s been too long since we caught up, she’d heard I was resigning, and she would love to set up a Zoom call. This morning I responded that if my old friend was asking to catch up on our personal lives, I would be open to that, but if the VP of HR was asking to do an exit interview, I was going to politely decline just as I did with her staff. I think this obsession is because 3 women who reported directly to my VP have resigned in less than 6 months. Just as we kick off a big diversity and inclusion campaign.
The owners approved that other department will now report to me. It's definitely the right thing to do and I feel passionate about it but starting to panic about what it means for my workload during the busy time of the year for us. I'm meeting with our best accounting manager today to offer her the promotion to manage and lead that department which means I will lose her and need to find her replacement.
The kids school format is moving to hybrid next week which means they will go to school two days per week. I'm unsure if it will be better or worse on the virtual days because they won't have a teacher facilitating live lessons.
Post by librarychica on Jan 8, 2021 12:09:26 GMT -5
My 3rd greater is about to get her 6th teacher in 2 academic years. It’s no one’s fault — 1 teacher passed away, then there was a long term sub and then she got her new teacher right before schools shut down. Now she’s in online, asynchronous and they were so overwhelmed with demand and that she started in one giant class before being moved to a new one as a new teacher was hired. Now that teacher is going on maternity leave.
mellym, if you want your kids engaged/learning, then virtual days during hybrid are a lot worse. But if they're independent with their work and can otherwise occupy themselves when they're not being taught, then maybe it would be better. For us it was worse.
Hybrid days are more work to entertain the kids because they aren’t on zoom calls all day but less academic work and getting them on zoom calls. My experiment of one kid hybrid and one kid remote is that hybrid is better overall because 1. They leave the house and 2. Tech issues were slowly driving us all insane.
DS has gone back and forth between 2 teachers this year (remote teacher and hybrid). Luckily his math teacher is the same.
waverly, ITA that hybrid is better than 100% virtual. But the virtual days were better in 100% virtual than the virtual days in hybrid, if that makes sense at all....