8 Weeks

It's been a while since I've done any updates about work. The last time I'd mentioned anything, I was the only person doing sourcing for information for our CAD builds. That wasn't a lot different than what they do for photography for the catalog, so they added me to the photography & art direction team for doing that kind of thing, too!!! Towards the end of last year, they started discussing returning to the office. The plan was to have various teams come in for a few days each month on a rotating schedule. The only thing is, the rest of my team is located back east. I don't mind, I'll head back a few times a year!!! Instead of doing that, though, they decided to transfer me to a department that is represented locally. They trained me for a customer service position, dealing with e-mail and text contacts. Since the beginning of the year I trained in that department, and then was working doing that. April was my first rotation coming into the office for three days of the week. The second day, they called me in, and told me that they've been struggling in my old department, and asked if I could, on a temporary basis, come back and help out.

This is one of the first of my old friends that I saw when I came back. He's the one that I'd gone to see Brian Fallon with a few years back, and he wanted to get a selfie with me to send to his girlfriend, who occasionally asks after me!!!

The opinion of several of my co-workers was that I would probably be there longer than the time they had specified, the 8 weeks mentioned in the title. They took a couple of days an re antiquated me with the process and show me the changes. After that, I was able to get back into my old role fairly easy. I told my co-workers it was like getting back on the world's worst bicycle!!! All the old aches and pains came back to me, too!!! Since I wasn't working from home, I wasn't seeing the cat, and one day on break I spotted this shaggy fellow out in the quad, so I got a picture of it!!!

I don't know if I've ever made mention, but one of the break rooms features a cool curved glass block wall. It used to have a couch, but they took it out on account of the Wuhan. One day I went in and both the chairs were taken, and I asked if I was going to have to sit on the floor. One of the girls I work with said they would lay back with their legs up the wall, and it would give them a good stretch on your back and legs. That sounded good, so I tried it, and after that, almost every day I'd do that on my afternoon break!!!

Of course, I was finally getting my steps in every day, so I would get my Pokemon GO buddy out. One day, I tried getting my buddy out while reclined against the glass block wall, and this is what a mamoswine looks like from underneath!!!

And the same mamoswine down one of the asiles.

The second week I had a vacation scheduled, which I have yet to post anything about. My wife is having another surgery this coming week, so I recently asked how they were doing on getting things staffed. I could tell that things have been better than they had been at the start. I told them that since the recovery is an uncertain process, it would be great if I could return to the customer service position and go back to working from home, and they arranged to get that taken care of, so I held them to the eight weeks that they said to begin with!!! It was honestly a nice change, other than commuting during the worst gas prices ever, but I don't mind being back to working from home!!!