Flexibility, anyone??

In my profile I was asked which I thought was more important--flexibility or expandability. Now, we all know the purpose of those stupid questions--it's to flesh out our profile and give the viewer something to frame a picture on...no pun intended. When I filled that thing out, I answered with what I felt--flexibility. To me that really is more important...

That's a good thing, too, because the last year has proved to be one that really required a great deal of flexibility here. I still have the Western Region and things have settled in nicely. I was able to get almost all the paper that seemed to have taken up permanent residence on my desk removed around June or July. The great former military guy I worked with retired the end of August but was available on a consulting basis til the end of September. Our Assistant Manager "resigned" on September 1, we got our old Assistant Manager back who left us five years ago and we have another new team member who is in her mid-20's. All in all, it was an interesting year, to say the least.

When I named this blog "As the Chicken Clucks..." I did so for a reason. Work had turned into a soap opera and things could be interesting at times. How people can find time to carry on the way they do is beyond me. I've always found that work kept me plenty busy. Maybe that's because I've never foisted my work off onto other people. I suppose that could be how they find the time to keep things stirred up. I've always said this is the best place I've ever worked...and it is. There have been a few minor irritations but, for the most part, it's been great.

No one likes to find out they've been flim-flammed, but I did this year...and it had been going on for years. Oh, it's not that the warning bells never went off--it's just that they didn't make any sense when they did. Fortunately, for me, I've always been the "older" part of older and wiser but now I've actually had some wisdom added to that.