Alright then, just two more days ya big woosie

Originally my employment notice had been given for this Friday, the 26th of August. I had figured on having a solid week for moving and settling down in Victoria before school started. Then it was discovered that the people who currently occupy our future home won’t be moving until the very last day possible. The day after that will be taken up by our landlord installing new carpet. This isn’t a bad thing, but it does cut that much deeper into the allocated transition period. All this adds up to a long stretch between my last day of work and moving day. People were telling me that I should spend it camping/hiking, but I’m too stressed out to have planned anything so fancy. I would have just wound up sitting on my ass in front of the computer for 5 days.

Enter my boss: Today he walked into my office and said “I can’t let you leave yet”. This was nothing new, people had been teasing me for the last few weeks about having my ankle chained to the desk… especially as D-day approached and we still hadn’t found a suitable replacement. Turns out he was serious though, the 9 weeks notice I gave just wasn’t enough, and he was promising to make it worth my while if I’d stay on until the 31st. I bargained him down to the 30th, and now I have something to keep me busy next week! Now I'll only spend the afternoons of Monday and Tuesday on my ass in front of the computer... hooray!

The new Buyer/Planner has officially been selected and I begin training him tomorrow. Half of the upstairs sales staff had applied to the internal posting for my position, but we wanted somebody with purchasing experience, even if it wasn’t in the industry. (Nobody from upstairs sales has a frigin clue about how we build things here anyways.) Now I’ve got just 5 days to get this dude all learned-up, comfortable, and familiar with the key materials planning that’s needed to keep things running. If I miss anything he’ll just have to go to my boss or the production planners for help.