[Magdalen] The occasional prayer, please.

[Roger Stokes]

On 01/12/2015 04:00, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
> Thanks to all for the continuing prayer.
>
> An unexpected subject of said prayer happened early this afternoon when our division chief (and my "personnel boss", as opposed to "work boss" who is my co-worker) informed us all that he was retiring (early 50s) by mid-December, and will be moving to somewhere in Washington state (meaning I don't recall where) where he will be doing similar "division chief"-style work, except instead of a handful of employees he'll have 90 people under him.  Can you say, "Sick of this place!"?

I wouldn't call that retiring as he's heading for a bigger department.  
That said Washington state is not renowned for water shortages but I 
could understand them being concerned about flood-plain development.

> The jolt (felt more by my co-worker than me, as I had a sixth sense this was coming) comes in the form of just exactly what we as a 2-person section have experienced over the last two years.  Nearly two years ago to the month, we lost our boss of umpteen years.  Seven to eight months later, we lose our third person (hard to call him a "co-WORKer", but that's personal opinion within the section).  And now, the division chief who's served as our supervisor in at least an overseer capacity retires in plain sight.  We have no faith he'll be replaced soon.  In fact, I've made my usual prediction under such circumstances (and I'm usually right), and this time it's that the other division chief (the only other one, that is) will be learning what we do in a rather quick timeframe, and will serve in that "temporary" capacity for some time to come.  (Losing a division chief amounts to one helluva budgetary savings, I'll clue ya.)

That seems a reasonable scenario.  Naturally it will take time doing the 
requisit investigations to check whether a new substantive appointment 
is needed. Om other words, procrastinate rather than say that the 
position has been abolished.

Roger