YoungHeart1980!

I hope everyone is doing okay. I didn’t know that someone was competing with me for the last few days and I didn’t even have to compete and it came to light during a meeting today and it didn’t sit well with the supervisor.

I started the day in a bad mood almost immediately because investigator #2 continues to send crazy emails with nothing but complaints about our systems and processes. She’s complicated and makes something so minor a lot more than what it really is.

Investigator #5 wanted everything completed yesterday when she sent me an expired contract 6 months after I started. I have been under pressure to meet the finance deadlines. There is a lot of information, communication, tasks, and contracts. Today was our 2-hour finance meeting with the higher ups. I don’t like meetings that are redundant, but I guess it’s for the sake of the supervisor, they are boring, but I did learn some shortcuts and new side notes. My side of the house, research passed with ease and I’m on track to clean up the ugly mess I inherited. I was only asked to clean up one salary line which I didn’t even affect, wasn’t me, but okay. I have led my own way.

The supervisor got her rear handed to today! She cannot operate this department the same way where she came from. You cannot expect a different result if you continue to do the same thing. She was operating the previous department from a deficit and this current department makes revenue. She created her own fund and moved dollars for her own discretionary use and was questioned about it. She was told to move those available funds back to the general ledger because she’s operating from a deficit and doesn’t have any funds and has to do cleanup to clear expenses that don’t belong. She was schooled on the use of discretionary dollars and the purpose of having them is only for investigators. She had nothing to say but “Okay, I’ll put them back.”

The supervisor was questioned on our duties and was weird that the cat lady (co-worker who has several cats) should be working on specific tasks, and the supervisor had no response for. There was really not much the cat lady was working on, and I was shocked, and the conclusion was that she didn’t have a lot to do to hold a full-time job! The supervisor was still and couldn’t look at the Director who was leading the meeting. It became clear who was doing all the work. The competition began when it was mentioned that I was doing a good job on my end and the supervisor was left out cold but told to clean up the many line items. It became clear she really didn’t know how to be a supervisor. Whoa! I knew it was not going to go smoothly after that meeting. All the Best!