another day...

I've gotten through another day...

it's not easy I can tell you, but today, I got up and showed up

first up I had a meeting which could have been very confrontational - meeting involved a bunch of typically aggressive union types, but I was so pleased with how I handled it, the meeting went very well...

after I left one of the managers there told me he was impressed with how I ran the meeting and he'd learned some stuff from me - so very chuffed...and then I felt sad...

and why you might ask?

well, someone in my team who was not performing has suggested I've bullied her...

it's bullshit...

my boss has prejudged the situation and I find myself working for a company who have done nothing to support me in the role they brought me in to do, I find the person in the role before me was bullied out of there, and yet someone in my team who I've done nothing but support, has claimed bullying because she is stressed...

give me a break!  if anyone has a legitimate claim for bullying, it's me...

but I will not walk away from this without defending this claim
I have done nothing wrong other than put my company's welfare ahead of my own
these things rarely go well for those managers who are courageous enough to hold staff to account

thankfully, an external person has been asked to do the investigation - I'm grateful for that - she at least will be (I hope) impartial...

so, anyway, in other news, my dad is back from his UK visit where he went to farewell my grandmother...it's great to have him home safely :-)

so tonight, I am simply grateful for that :-)