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June 10 2011, 18:38
So. On Tuesday I was a sure candidate for redundancy, and I'd have made it too, if it wasn't for them meddling middle-managers!
Now I'm equally surely reinstated, but not quite in my previous job. By the fickleness of Fate, a vacancy is opening in a nearby team at the end of the month, and the correlation has reached a manager who's high enough to persuade the accountants, and their drooling hydrocephalic hyena cousins in "Human" Resources, that it makes more sense to keep me around than to leave a whole business section unsupported. So Wednesday next week will come and go as if practically nothing has occurred, except that in a few weeks I will descend one storey to look after the computers of a different bunch of people.
The good news is that the new people are significantly different. My current office functions by bodging together rickety systems and shouting at people to make them work; and the second-level manager above me is an inbred fuckwit presided over by a sociopath. My destination works, rather more sensibly, by building systems that tend to keep working when bits of them break, which makes for a considerably more sensible life. True, the main manager there is a proper Genghis, but at least he's a smart Genghis who's only into terrorising people when it's in the interests of his department, which is something I find considerably easier to live with.
And that, it seems, is that. No redundancy; no juicy severance arrangement, and no immediate prospect of a return home.
But the prospect was nice enough that I think it's time I polished my CV. The Bank's been good to me, on the whole, but I'm getting kinda bored.