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However did I manage FIVE days in the office? I think I'm just suffering from BTWitis. I think I said the other day I wasn't really ready to go back at all. And I had a particularly early start today, which didn't help. However, using ChatGPT REALLY helped with the minutes from my 9am meeting. It doesn't do the whole job - eg, it doesn't write directly into my template - but it condenses the conversation into a few bullet points, which is at least half of the job.

I then took an early lunch and popped into the super-ethical Lush for some Sweet Wild Orange hand cream (it smells AMAZING) and the rather less ethical Primark for new slippers (although they are made with 50% recycled polyester). Then it was back to the office for a webinar on building the perfect PMO and the monthly cascade meeting. Our CIO's boss did a presentation on how our department supports the work of the whole uni (because apparently some of my colleagues don't understand their contribution... but it was actually really interesting), and talked about how we've pivoted in the last year from trying to stop students from using AI to finding ways to use it as a 'force for good'.

I've also joined an online community that is all about learning more about AI. Having pretty much ignored it up until about a month ago, I'm suddenly in it up to my neck! It's one of those things where it's just impossible to put the genie back in the bottle. We have to find ways of working with it or it really will overwhelm us.

And I managed to make some progress with Sea of Stars, which I haven't touched in two whole days! My chat buddy who started playing before me is waaay behind me, now :D
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I was feeling quite low at the start of the week.  When people asked how I was, my response was, 'OK' in a meh kind of tone.  When doing my 'holy' reflections on Thursday morning, I realised this was a familiar feeling.  I had it in 2013 after the department restructure left me without any kind of team (my only immediate colleague took voluntary severance and the 'team' I was placed in for admin purposes had nothing to do with my role), and also around 2008 when I had an 'office' (meeting space with a computer in the corner) to myself.

I have a 'team' but 2 of the people are new and we're expecting another newbie a week on Monday, and the 2 newbies and the remaining member of the 'old' team are bonding but I'm not quite getting in.  It's not personal or deliberate in any way - I just need time to warm up to people unless they make a serious effort with me.  The remaining member is my gamer colleague who is one of those lovely people who just gets on with everyone, so it's no surprise they're getting on with the newbies.

One of the newbies has also played the FF games (although the FF7R was news to them...?!), so that would give me something to talk to them about, and the other one has just borrowed (or is about to borrow?) FFX from gamer colleague having never played FF before, so that gives me an in there.  And GC is off on Monday (being a parent of twins), so I can get the newbies 'on their own'!  Or I can just wuss out and put my headphones on and listen to FF8 OST all day!

The other thing I'm missing is someone who is a) paid AND b) invested enough to listen to me moan.  I used to enjoy 1-1's with my former line manager because I could just vent about anything and everything.  And now they're gone.  My new line manager (again, more for admin purposes than anything, although we do actually do work together) has a much bigger team to look after and I'm missing the personal attention I used to have.

Understanding where the funk was coming from has been a big help, though, and I've felt much better since.  And when the new newbie starts, I can start to settle in to the new team properly.  Until I high tail it out of there for my own new job!

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