As I wind down my time at The Willows I am made aware, by people I have helped over the years, how much they appreciate me and for what I have done for them. Its nice and I don’t think I realised what an impact if that is the correct word to describe I have made in 13 years?
I spent a few hours at one of the surgeries today and as I walked in I was hugged twice before I got to the bottom of the stairs and told how sad they are that I am leaving…
I filled in my exit interview form when I got home and maybe I was kinder than I might have been if I had filled it in when I hated going to work for what seemed a lifetime and I was not being heard and I had the indignity of being reprimanded for being negative. The only negative thoughts I ever had were the ones they were driving me to feel which if uncontrolled could have been catastrophic but throughout I ALWAYS did my job!
Maybe appreciation and understanding was what I needed back then, instead of three pages of A4 containing documented evidence of my perceived negativety being read to me without warning.
Those people are not the ones genuinely telling me how sad they are that I have decided to move on but they will probably stand there on my last day and tell me the rest of the staff at Langdale w hat a great employee I have been?
I begin my last full week on Monday and I intend to carry on as normal…