Bittersweet

This coming week is going to be extremely bittersweet for me.

The Elgin CCAC team will be moving back to brand new digs in St. Thomas while I will be remaining in London. I love finally being part of a team. It is wonderful to have other people to bounce things off of and to pick their brains and I dearly love all of the London placement team. I am, however, going to miss the daily face-to-face contact with the people with whom I have worked for the past 20 years.

Somehow the telephone just doesn't have the same intimacy. It certainly takes away from the comraderie that working together face-to-face has.

I am also going to really, really miss my boss. Barb has been one of the most incredible bosses that I have ever had. She is friendly, empathetic and most importantly, she follows up. I have always known that when I needed something, I could depend on her to get it. Unfortunately, my new boss just doesn't provide the same feeling of trust.

On the up side, I DO NOT have to pack up all my belongings again and then unpack them at the other end. I will not be trying to pack and do my job. Most importantly, over the next 2 or 3 months, some of the work that I am expected to do and just simply am unable to do because there are just so many hours in a day will be gradually transferred to the Community Case Managers and my job will become more and more like the London Placement Case Manager jobs - frantically busy still, but I won't feel guilty knowing that there is a stack of things that I an simply unable to get to.

I guess things balance themselves out over time. I will just have to develop new ways of maintaining contact with my Elgin co-workers and create new relationships with the London groups. As for my new boss............ oh well!!