Asleep on a Train

Still reeling from the news, but extremely philosophical about the whole thing, I been making busy polishing up the resume and chatting to the recruiters and outplacement people. I've had the opportunity to attend a series of seminars about recruitment and now understand a lot more about what goes on behind the scenes. It certainly makes it easier to handle the rejection letters when they come in. My contact point at the out placement place is a no nonsense person, so is ideal to deal with my bullshit when I slide and want to crawl into a hole and pull the lid over it. I have a couple of irons in the fire and there seems to be plenty of work for me so I remain optimistic about finding a place to move on to in the near future.

My boss called me in to his office early Monday and told me that he'd thought about my position and the direction that the group was going, or the direction he felt that the group should be going in, and that I was not the right one to be leading the group. While he said there was no one fault or flaw in what I'd done to date, he wanted to change the leader of the group and I had a couple of months to sort myself out before leaving. I left his office in a bit of a daze and since then I've struggled to come to grips with it all. I spoke to my team one by one, saying that I'd been thinking about it (leaving) for a while, but now JDN had found someone else and it was time to get out. I will now begin a series of training tasks that are provided by an outplacement group, and maybe, just maybe I will write about them on this web log.