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Bye Bully Bye!

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It’s interesting to see how quickly things can change over time, how a situation can change. I’ve only written one post instead of two last month because I was too busy (working overtime 16 hours a day) and when I logged into the backend of this website I noticed the post I wrote about a month ago about the bully at work. I was so fed up with the guy at the time that I really wanted to leave and look for another assignment. Actually I’d already taken the necessary steps to leave this assignment and informed everyone who needed to be informed on my employer’s side and on the client’s side as well. I was pretty blunt in doing so as I feel no-one should cross my line the way that assh… did.

Still it took about three months to accomplish what I needed to accomplish causing lots of stress that I had to deal with. The moment I had made it clear that I was going to leave, Mr Assh… turned into this slick self-righteous smooth-talking colleague who seemed to be utterly relieved at the knowledge of me leaving. Well… hate to disappoint him but I wasn’t going anywhere at all. I was working for another large project besides his project -a migration of the main website- along with two other colleagues. One is also hired through an IT company to act as the product owner/manager. They both wanted me to design the new website and asked me to join work sessions on this.

In the meantime -during a meeting- he’d told the attending people including this other product owner that he’d refuse to work with me. So whilst one project was ending due to me leaving, the other just started, by me joining. The fun part is that this project outweighs the other one, also by being one of the biggest projects I’ve taken on so far. Basically I totally outsmarted him and he wasn’t aware until the moment the product owner told him she’d asked me to join her team. He was mad as hell but since he’d planned his two weeks vacation he had no time to do anything about it as the deal was already done and all other parties involved had given their consent without informing him.

The day he was told, (one day before his vacation started) he did something utterly childish which only confirmed my stated facts about him. I play this augmented reality game (which is all about capturing ‘portals’ and destroying the opponents’ portals) and so does he, he’s an opponent in the game but he told me he’s not very active, he hadn’t been playing for months. That day someone destroyed the portal at work which I barely use -just the one- surrounded by other green fields/portals, he probably thought I use it daily. Whilst on the bus home I checked to see who trashed it and managed to trace it back to him (I didn’t know his nickname I just googled and found solid facts that it was him).

It made me laugh… During his absense last month I’ve worked on this very important presentation and got everything ready for the big day where the board of executives was going to take a look at it. They were very pleased and all of my designs were approved. I’ll be working on different projects still but at least there won’t be anyone trying to take the wind out of my sails by being a total jerk. I’ve managed to change the situation into one where I’m thriving and enjoying my job again, as I should! He’s still trying to get control since he asked the product owner to join us by sitting in ‘our’ room… We were assigned a particular team project room -two actually- for the three of us.

What he doesn’t realise yet is that his remark about refusing to work with me is going to cost him. If it’s up to my colleagues and team mates he won’t be sitting anywhere near me, I avoid him like the plague and ignore him whenever he is in the room. In the meantime his ‘power’ as product owner is slowly reducing to zero and soon he nolonger will be needed in that role as someone else in a higher position is already appointed to this who should’ve been product owner to begin with. Then he can go back to his former role which is a few steps lower on the hierarchical ladder. I’m pretty sure he is not going to like it a bit. Do I care? Nah… I just can’t stop grinning like a Cheshire cat.

It can take a lot to piss off a Capricorn, but if you do it won’t be pretty and no matter how many times you try to break her she will always come back 10 times harder.

New Light

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I’ve been updating the design of this website on and off, it’s a work in progress still and something that needs to be done in my spare time which is a luxury these days. I miss blogging and lately I have felt a strong urge to start writing again and pick up where I’ve left. There has been such a change in my life that I can’t even think of what to write first. Fact is though that it has and most in an extremely positive way. I’ve written about part of the changes in my previous post and how I felt I needed to redefine this blog.

So I have but it is going to show over time at a slow pace. Since I’ve started this blog as a personal diary about 10 years ago I have decided to unpublish some post that are no longer of any ‘use’ to me. They’re archived and I guess will be deleted at some point (or not). It’s still something I need to figure out, think about and make a decision. Some things I’d like to put behind me, some posts that I’ve written are fading memories that I’d either like to keep in my heart or like to forget. The latter is the reason for archiving or deleting: I am past that point and I have moved on, I’ve used it as a written waypoint at the time when I needed to stop, rethink and take action.

So ever since my last post, there has been personal turmoil on the side as well, pretty intense and undesirable but it’s the kind of stuff I do not wish to write about. It’s the kind of stuff that has been solved over time by giving it time to be solved if that makes sense. It might be best to let quiet take over and listen to what you’re being told by the Universe, I mean truly listen. And although my heart is still hurt at times, I’ve solved issues by being compassionate and learn to trust again which is the hardest part. Yes there has been damage but nothing that the strong-minded goat can’t cope with.

I’ve promised myself to focus ahead since I want to move away from deceitful scum and start with a clean slate. Ignoring the pathetic and childish stalker actions of the psychopathic cretin is one for instance. So here I am, slowly starting to write again and putting the past where it belongs: in the past. I feel like spring cleaning. Getting rid of the stuffy cretin -and other particles for that matter- that instantly make you cough or sneeze when lifted by sudden atmospheric velocity. It’s time to open the doors and let the light right in and sweep the dirt right out… :)