Reasons why I haven't updated my word count over the past few days:

Went to Disneyland on Tuesday, and while there, my staff decided to all ditch work by like 1 o'clock. They shrugged all responsibilities and just left, without telling anyone. I came back into work the next day to deal with escalations for customers who weren't able to get a hold of anyone, and numerous employees who were unable to reach Los Angeles. Everyone, including my boss, knew about the group bailing early before I did.

When I got back, they had the nerve to vent to me about all sorts of stuff, most of which was irrelevant and out of my control, and tell me that they were upset at me for taking a day off. They were comparing themselves to other employees who have had attendance problems, and one even told me that she thought I made too much money for the job that I do, knowing full well that my employees make more than I do. I have never in my entire life been the subject of as much blatant disrespect and the focus of much anger and profanity. It was ridiculous. I ended the conversation, told them I would work with my boss about the matter, and let them cool down for a few hours.

I met with them individually and they admitted that it was not a smart thing to do. I told them that, ya know, in most places, people would have gotten fired for shit like that.

And for very good reasons too.

I addressed the situation and those things that I could, talked to people as a group, and then yelled at them individually and privately. Yesterday ended with me being confident in them not pulling shit like that again. I also felt confident that we were going to be able to improve as working as a team. I had worked with my boss to handle the situation as best as possible, so the day also ended with me being very satisfied with working for and with him. He has been the most communicating boss I have ever had with this company.

So, this morning's meeting, I was told that my group will be reporting to a new boss. The other data centers will continue to report to my old boss, so this only really affects my group.

So today, I'll be spending it trying to figure out what this means, and who this new guy is. All I know is he is in Dallas.

Some other stuff is going on that I cannot yet go into detail to, but some shuffling and feather ruffling outside of this group has happened.

And to top it all off, we had an outage of our admin machines and a few production machines this morning to add that little zest to the morning. Oh yeah.

Did I mention that phones were down too?

And that I lost track of a check I wrote that, if it came through today, would have bounced? Thank goodness tomorrow is payday, direct deposit theoretically happening overnight.

I'm really hoping that nothing more major happens until after NaNoWriMo. I don't want to be thinking resume when writing my story, and I'm already behind.

*sigh*

And it's not even noon yet.