Centuries in A New Chapter

It has been such a long time since I sat down and took the time to spill my thoughts.

I also feel kind of guilty..i think I have not written here in almost a year.
The other day it popped into my head that I miss this place..
Its weird but..it just does not feel the same as Opendiary even though it is almost the same thing. I feel like every time I come here I write the same thing. God dammit.

Anyhow..
Work was really rough for a while. We finally reached mutual ground.
I was always pissed because I work at night. It got to the point that we no longer had a good amount of employees for my team (we went from around 13 to 5-6 in the course of a year.) It meant that I was going to start working longer shifts and on days that I did not want to. We finally had a long meeting about it.
I basically reached my point of fuck it..I don’t care if I don’t work here anymore.

I told them that I was ready to go. They asked me if there was anything they could do to make me stay. I asked them to let me work from home and they agreed. I was shocked. We started out with one day a week and moved on to two and right now we are at two and sometimes three. I enjoy spending more time at home since it allows me to be around my girlfriend and my projects more.

However, I know it is only a short term solution. It is like trying to cover a gunshot wound with a bandaid. I really have no future at that place. The benefit and pay are really good but moving up means spending more time there..which is not something I want to do. Recently, a senior position opened up. The guy who took it now has to work Friday-Sun and no longer gets to work from home.

“You can have it dude.”

It has finally reached a point that things are somewhat ok. I get to spend more time at home than at the office which really helps. I don’t want to go and play corporate shithead and smile at people I don’t want to. I just want to go, sit at my desk, and do my work. Nothing else.

A woman was openly trying to screw me by fucking up my productivity metrics, that was nice. She left the department so that situation diffused itself.

It is at work that I feel like i have made some pretty different friendships tho.
I primarily work very closely with Maria. She is a 40 year old woman with 2 teenagers.

Her and I run the bilingual team. She makes work much more tolerable for sure.
Trustworthy also. When she leaves or I leave..its really going to be hard for the other person to stay.
We make that team work.

Ill try to catch up soon with even more stuff.

Lots of changes probably going down in the next few months.