Long Week

[mbarrick]

It's been a long week with lots of uncertainty. The mantra around the office is "Business as usual until we know otherwise" and even though I have no good reason to think so, it still feels a little like being in the band on the Titanic. It's just the uncertainty of it all that is annoying. It's hard to do business as usual when stuff you are working on may be scrapped next month. Fact is I have every indication that I'm going to have a lot more work on my plate when the merger is final - I just don't know what that work is going to be, exactly. Welcome to the law of induction: just because something has happened a certain way for a long time doesn't mean it will continue that way. Just because the company is 50 years old, profitable and doing well doesn't mean it will be there tomorrow. Just because you've tossed "heads" five times in a row doesn't mean the next toss won't be "tails". So here I am, bet on "heads" and came up "tails". I don't know what that means. Nobody knows what it means yet. Maybe a better analogy than the Titanic would be being Dutch in Niew Amsterdam or living in New Oleans right after the Louisiana Purchase. Things turned out OK, but I'll bet a lot of people were freaking out at first.

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[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

even positive change is scary at first...i helped institute a completely new way for us to do our work last year that came out of the project i was on through ottawa...it was exactly a year in this week and a lot of people are just starting to get used to the change...things are much better in the long run, but it was hard for some people to make the switch and let go of the past...and some haven't completely...it will be interesting to see where it takes you...but you are right in life you never know...and there's always the possibility the coin could just stand on it's edge and not hit heads or tails, but it's a remote possibility...ha ha...

D&D in Grade 10

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

there's always the possibility the coin could just stand on it's edge

Heh. Reminds me of a game of D&D when I was 15. A four-sided die was thrown. It was the type where the points of the tetrahedron were flattened so it would roll a bit better. Well, it came down, *plunk*, and landed perched on one of the flattened points. After some discussion it was decided it was a "5".

And I half remember an old Twilight Zone where the whole episode was about a guy who threw a quarter into the bin at a newsstand for a paper, and it landed on-edge. His day went strangely right up until the quarter finally fell over.

Wow!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_darkpixie_/]

Sounds like you and I have had very similar weeks...
Just remember that change can and is usually positive, even if it hurts like hell in the short run.