May Days [03]

I’ve been back at work for 10 days and today should have been my 100th (working) day in this role. I actually think I’ve managed 65 – so I’ve been off sick a third of the time I have had this job. Which, I have to be honest, is making reintegration a little bumpy. In some ways it feels like starting afresh…except I know just enough for people to expect me to know stuff! That said it was an okay week (with a week now equally four days). Some things that frustrated me before my enforced lay-off continue to blow my mind and there was certainly some of that again but it was balanced out – perhaps outweighed – with some positive conversations and meetings that made me feel like we are on the right path. The re-org/re-shuffle continues to loom though so there is some mental gymnastics involved in planning for a future that might look quite different (and might not include me) but really that is just life in the modern management era I guess – you are only ever X days from a re-organisation!…