A Life of Constant Flux » teammates http://joelmarcey.com Being Self-Employed, Technology, Raising Kids, Life's Journey Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:27:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My Boss Beat Me To It and The Dull Spoon http://joelmarcey.com/2007/09/27/my-boss-beat-me-to-it/ http://joelmarcey.com/2007/09/27/my-boss-beat-me-to-it/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:41:45 +0000 Joel Marcey http://joelmarcey.com/2007/09/27/my-boss-beat-me-to-it/ So there I was. I was to have a pre-farewell lunch with my boss’ boss and afterwards I was to tell my teammate the bad (I hope) news. On the way to lunch, I told my boss’ boss that one of the hardest, if not hardest, thing I was going to have to do was to tell my teammate that I was leaving. The response “Oh, [my boss] told him yesterday”.

I was shocked. Not that my boss told him, but that my teammate let 1 1/2 days go by without saying a word!!

I walk into my teammate’s cubicle after lunch, sit down and he gives me this look like he knew that I knew he knew the news (is that an alliteration??). I asked why he didn’t say anything. He said so I could suffer in agony. He brought out his dull butter-knife that he said he would use on me if I was to ever leave and then said he was going to use a dull spoon instead ;-)

He understood my reasoning for leaving.

I am going to miss my teammate. He is a good guy and super smart. I wish him all the best in the world.

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This is probably the hardest part of this whole process for me, as weird as that may seem. Or maybe I should use the word awkward instead of hard.

I imagine it is going to be strange for him to be the only one reporting to my manager. It was strange only having a two person team, let alone a one person team.

I hope I use the right protocol and etiquette.

I will let you know how it goes.

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