I get back from a wonderful day off, one that felt too good to be true...
Worked over the weekend, for only a brief stint, about 3 hours. The day before, the big boss comes up to me and says in these words "If you work Saturday, you can take Monday off." I then go to Jason and see whats up, he points out that he needs me in at 2pm, to help reconnect the switches, say it will take about and hour. Sounds like a sweet deal, it was way too good to be true. That day I did come in, and for the 3 hours, I did to the reconnects on the switches, and the only issue we had identified was to move some users over to another VLAN for Tech Support. I got that done, and to my own fault, I did miss 3 connections, and said I would get them when I got back in. I left when Otto did that day, we had one issue where some phones did not come up, we had that resolved. I left. Jason called about an hour and a half later, not leaving a message.
Went into a meeting today, and they told about all the problems that had really happened that day, apparently after I left, not realizing this. Cisco Call Manager stuff was down at all sites, routes were missing, it was a mess. The guys spent a good part of Monday morning putting "Humtpy Dumpty" back on that wall before it was better. They looked at the how the day went, and with quite a bit of disdain for me, were not happy one bit that I left when I did. Jason looked pissed, so did Brian and Brent, or as I call it, all the people that it should matter to...
Hey if I was them I would be too. They all made mistakes as apparently I did. It seemed to good to be true, I should have asked more questions to Jason, and even Brent about only working 3 hours. Jason needed to communicate better with me, further detailing what was going on, and what needed to happen for me while I was there. Brent shouldn't have told me to take the day off if it was really flex time. To make up for the apparent transgression I made, I offered to work the Saturday I need to be in Barry County, and take no time off afterwards for it. But it really comes down to this: my team no longer seems to communicate with me. It has never been the same since last February. Jason has never really trusted me after that, therefore never delegates any projects to me. In the meeting today, I see Rich and Jason as the topics for Research and Development, I am never in that category anymore. Hell the only reason they asked me to work this weekend was because Rich was busy, hell I was their "alternate." I really am not an important part of this team anymore. I feel it, but they never seem to want to come out and say it. I wish they would just come out with the problems they really have with me, so I can make some decisions here...
