@Puddinandpie Allow me to proclaim my eternal love to that stained glass door of yours. You have fantastic taste in interior design! Also you hair is very beautiful (and what a cute strawberry cardigan you have).
@Sunsea21 , @Cegbee , @happytobemrsg love your autumnal outfits, so pretty and suits you all so well.
Thank you for your kind words ladies re office drama, there always has to be one troublemaker in every workplace, hasn’t it. I’m lucky to have management on my side though!
I’ve also been trying to get into one vacant role inside the department, so I’m anxiously waiting for the news on Friday when HR is supposed to announce internal transfers. This is a challenging role I’d love to do & also it’s a way of preventing getting transferred to any other job I wouldn’t want to do as it’s been 5 years I wasn’t transferred anywhere. I know it’s coming for me, so better try to make it happen on my terms.
I’ve only ever worked in Japan, so I’m not too familiar with what it is like in other countries, is it typical for UK companies to have internal transfers of personnel once/ several times a year, or not at all?
I remember when I entered my current company, they took a bunch of fresh graduates (and it was apparently VERY hard to be chosen, only 1 out of 100 had their application accepted) and put each of them in the department they particularly didn’t want to go to. One girl said she’s not very confident with computers, so they made her go to IT department (she’s still there and took some IT qualification, as I’ve heard). One guy said he couldn’t really speak English, so he ended up doing a job that required fluency in communicating with clients overseas. One really arrogant guy got sent to work as a shop assistant at our subsidiary for a year (he was extremely humble when he came back. Maybe too humble and too hardworking, as I once stumbled upon him having a very heavy nosebleed in the kitchen corner, with his eyes all bloodshot from lack of sleep, and I got properly scared for him). Etc. You get the idea.
So I’d really love to get my internal transfer done on my terms! And also to get away from that troublemaker that doesn’t seem to like me much (not just me tbh, she’s not very popular for a good reason).
It’s still very summery here (+30 degrees), so here’s my flowery dress with sakura necklace (old photo). Can't wait for autumn.