So, some good news this week, one of the two ways I could have been made redundant, has been dissolved, or at the very least, shelved for 12 months. Long story short but the department needed to make cuts and offered voluntary redundancy and enforced the selection process which meant you had to apply for your grade. If you didn't make the grade, you would be made redundant, no ifs or buts. However, turns out that despite that official line of wanting, "the right people for the department," now that so many people opted to jump ship on the voluntary exit scheme, they now don't have enough people to run the department and are having to fill the gaps with temps. And so... they've got rid of the selection process for this year at least. We are still facing the threat of the building closure and the relocation of jobs, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it and we'll know before the end of April. It's been a long five months waiting for that decision to be made, well, I think it was made five months ago, but it's been a long five months waiting for the decision to be announced.
So now that I'm no longer required in the office on the 8th and 9th of April, (that was when the selection process was being launched,) I can now take the leave that I'd booked well in advance and I can take off four whole days, as planned. It's much needed, I feel exhausted.
It's still freezing cold here and although the last of the snow finally melted this week, I'm still wearing four layers of clothing to work each day. As I peer out of my kitchen window, I'm at last seeing cold looking green grass rather than the white stuff.
Tired of being cold in work despite layer upon layer of clothing. Hormones and blood pressure still raging and so tired.
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