So, uh, How's it going?

Right, so a few weeks into this whole work thing and no updates the whole time. I'm terrible about posting regularly, but then you already knew that. Surely though my new responsibilities don't have me working so hard I'm too drained to pop off some quick humor for you, my ever so dwindling adoring public? Surely I'm not at work twenty hours a day?

Well, getting a grip on my new job without everything has taken a lot out of me, true. And I have had to come in earlier and stay later than I ever did before I was a supervisor, yes. It's definately a drain on my mental energies, making it tougher to get much writing done. But what's really been draining all of my temporal, er... time, when I'm home and able to write new posts has nothing really to do with my astounding ascension of the corporate ladder. I mean really people, there's work, and then there's new videogames. I know, I know, I'm horrendously ashamed of myself. But it's damn fun.

Anyway, here's some tidbits from my life as a supervisor. I'm on second shift these days, in all likelihood soon to be moved to third shift. I'm learning not only how to supervise people who are doing my old job, but people doing something completely different which involves a different set of skills and systems and everything. This different stuff is driving me crazy and I'm only really going to need to know how to deal with any of it for two more weeks or so anyway, wonderful. Last week I had to fire my first employee. Well, I had to watch my manager fire my first employee, but that's not all that much easier. (It's not that they only had two weeks with the company, I took over an existing team and this person was already on their final warnings when I started.) The worst part of that was just getting the rep from the desk to the office where my manager was waiting. No, don't worry about that piece, just come with me. The team is showing improvement since I took over and most of them seem happy to have me there. Now I'm just worried that as I'm encouraged more and more to do things the way upper management wants it all done I'll be less effective and lose what I've gained by just treating people the way they need to be treated to thrive. Oh, well.

Sometimes I wonder what I've got myself into, why I'm doing this instead of just staying in the easier job with fewer hours and having more time to myself. Sometimes I'm sitting beside someone on my team monitoring them for their feedback and I just want to grab the keyboard and start doing all the work myself. I liked having my performance measured only on what I myself had done, not what I convinced other people to do. It's all very strange to me.