happy things

[wickedcherub]

A couple of people on my flist have started a 'happy things' daily post so I thought I'd give it a go, though I'm sure I'd never keep it up daily.

TODAY:

1. A family friend of mine was in a coma for 3 months after a nasty motorcycle accident and he's come out now and though he's a bit of a vegetable still, he's asked to see me (as best as he could) so I'm going to go visit him today. POSITIVE SIGNS!

2. I got a promotion! Okay not really. I am moving out of the call centre into the finance department at work, looking after accounts receivable! So it's the same pay grade, therefore not a promotion, but it means, off the phones, it also means a new contract, which means my 3 year call centre contract gets effectively paused while I work in finance for 12 months, then I'm allowed back on the phones. This is also great because I move from the 39th floor down to the 10th, which sounds like a downgrade, but there's a girl moving to 39 that i JUST CANNOT STAND, I even preemptively asked to move desks before her arrival so I wouldn't have to deal with her, and now I will only have to deal with her for two weeks! HURRAH!

Comments

[sarahlouise.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of this. I did it a few years ago and it really does make you see things differently! Hope your friend is ok. And that definately sounds like a promotion to me! In my experience (as ANZ does those kinda sideways promotions a lot) you usually don't end up going back to the old role (unless you want to of course). It usually ends up a springboard for something else :)

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

To me, it's a promotion because it was a job opened up to our entire department and well, I got it, but the way our contracts work, they can't give me more than 12 months on it, so when that's up, unless another spot opens up somewhere else, I *have* to go back on the phones. Which in the end is fine, I'm hoping to work on the phones part time in a few years when Adam goes back to work

[sarahlouise.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I always found that things change surprisingly a lot in 12 months. I did 3 moves like that where I was supposed to be going back at the end and it just.. didn't happen. other roles came up in the meantime or whatever. But sounds like it is win/win either way :)

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the promotion and I hope your friend is on his way to recovering.

Stacey

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Thank you!