Well, it’s been an interesting start to the week. Yesterday morning, I was at work for roughly an hour or so when I was informed that I was being pushed out of my job due to a merging of positions based on the economic downturn. Plainly stated, they determined someone else was better suited to do not only my job but also the position I had held previously, before my promotion almost 2 years ago. Go figure. I’ll spare all the details of how badly I feel I was backstabbed, at least for now.

While I should have been more aware that some kind of change was imminent. This was honestly the last thing I saw coming. Recent discussions on the possibility of merging positions entailed me offering to do both jobs, if(when) the situation arose.

Regardless, what’s done is done. Or, to coin an often used and extremely annoying cliche that ran through my office quicker than the swine flu epidemic, “It is what it is”

So now, I sit combing through the classifieds and job websites. A strange feeling, to say the least, with almost 9 years at the same company, in many different capacities. I was comfortable, obviously too much.