YoungHeart1980!

I hope everyone is doing okay. I like my job; it wouldn’t be interesting if not going through what I am at the moment. The storm will turn into light rain, but I have to put up a fight for now. I have to be grateful for the job because others are losing theirs as 122 people have been laid off as it was recently announced. I have to show confidence and received an email from the sponsor who pays for our work to begin doing some clean up on the overspent account.

My boss asked if he could help. He sees how busy I am and he’s at least making an attempt after being silent for a while. I planned on getting off at 3:30pm today, but it didn’t happen, at least I got some clarity on a few tasks that were held until further instruction. I can’t keep count on the number of tasks pending. We were able to find the expenses that had been billed to get reimbursed for services previously rendered by our team.

The Director of sponsored projects at the central office tried to get wild on us during a meeting. LOL! She got frustrated at us and overstepped with her words and putting us down without asking for a solution. I can understand too though because our lead supervisor doesn’t know how to communicate and was talking gibberish. I stepped in and expressed that two things happened on their end and alluded we, meaning our team and hers should take responsibility for what went wrong. I gave her two solutions that she accepted. She was shocked at the story I told her of the 1.5million overspent account and her team’s oversight of the situation was missed. She calmed down – so if she doesn’t have a solution then she should be finger pointing. I pushed back calmly, really made her look funny in front of everyone. My co-worker acknowledged me for putting a stop to her tongue lashing and redirecting the conversation to a solution. He looked worried and I put them all at ease when I mentioned the sponsor had given me the green light to begin clearing some expenses off the account that is overspent and moving forward toward a solution one step at a time. I also would get her justification for not submitting our invoices for her audit documentation.

People act different under stress, and I get it. You can’t accomplish anything by rehashing the problem but focus more on a solution. High vibes and onward, calm and patience are necessary. Time to disconnect and replenish my energy. All the Best!