Categories: oop-norf
Tags: w*rk
Date: 24 August 2004 17:37:57
I've been in my new job for 7 and a half weeks now and it's helping my depression. By helping, I mean the depression is making something of a reappearance which is somewhat concerning.
As I've only been there for a short time, it looks bad if I move to another job. My colleagues are both a help and a hindrance. One of my colleagues is really rubbing me up the wrong way and I know the eventually I'll just flip.
Because I was off work for a few days I missed some of the meetings I minute. When I got back one of the people who covered the meeting said that she was struggling to get the minutes done but had arranged to meet with the chair to sort it out. Another colleague said that it was too complicated, she was tempted to walk out, she hardly took any notes and gave me a pile of paperwork saying that I could do the minutes myself. If I was expecting to write the minutes myself, I would have gone to the meeting myself - in whatever state of illness I was in. By the way, each of my colleagues do the same job as me and will have to be minuting lots of these meetings. Both colleagues had been to that type of meeting before and the chairs are both good people.
When I met with my manager earlier, they were very surprised that this person hadn't typed up the minutes and because I've used my initiative to try and find out more information I still have to write the minutes. The situation will be fixed for the future. I'm not sure how much good that will do as we've already had meetings on the way to do things but according to my lovely colleague this isn't good enough and she's going to do her own thing anyway.
There are so many problems at work at the moment and the situation with This Woman is just another one but it is very difficult. I don't know how to deal with it and it's messing with my head.
I don't know what to do, but I don't think I can stay here really. If I wanted to be depressed I'd have moved back to East Devon or gone back to study!