It's been a weird week

Well this week started out really well. I was pumped about work, I was productive, I got my notes done, I was still excited that I had booked a flight, hotel, and car for a guy in my office at 11:30 and the flight he needed to be on left at 1:45!! It was a rush - can I just tell you.

Then Tuesday hit. Nothing big in the morning just the monthly update meeting at the Building on I-10(kind of the hub for the "Mother" company that I'm apart of). When I got back I got some terrible news from my boss. The man who I've known since well - for over half my life. He was the one that got me the job here and has been amazing to work with. He puts up with a TON of crap from all sides (including his wife - but that's a post for another time) and still manages to do an incredible job at this ginormous task.

He was let go - not only from being Project Manager but also from the job he was going to return to after the project was complete (for the same company).

Unfortunately as I hear it normally goes in the corporate world - the Project Manager normally gets the brunt of all mistakes made even though there is no way in the world he could have prevented it. For instance - he was accused of causing (or not preventing) a virus over in the freakin UK!!! Are you kidding me!!!! He was also accused of not repairing the relationships with all the CIO's. I'm sorry - but basically with this project (that was not his idea in the first place) they are working themselves out of a job. The company I work for would basically make what they do obsolete - so of course there's going to be some bitterness there. And my favorite excuse of all times - you're over budget. I'm sorry but a 9.8 million dollar project having to go to 10.2 million because the head boss dude wanted to add in another extremely large company is not his fault either!!! But no - boss man wanted to keep the very tight budget the same if not underneath while adding in several large locations from this new company. CRAZY!!!

Can you tell that I'm just a little bitter.

Honestly, when I first heard the news yesterday my mind immediately jumped from - that is horrible - what are you and your family going to do (he's completely jobless by the way!) to what does this mean for me. Am I out of a job since he's the one that basically created the job for me?!!? Til eventually even that turned into. . .ok - maybe this is the break from this to foreign missions. Who knows. I'm finally past the freak out part into the peace that God knows what he's doing and this didn't take him by surprise part. He's taken me this far and as the song we sang on Sunday says - All the way my Savior leads me. So I rest in that!

Please pray for my friend and his family. He has a wife and three children. They just recently bought a house, and she only works during the school year as a teacher at the private school that her kids go to. I know that there are going to be changes that have to be made in their life style and I ask that you pray that they all have the grace to make those changes willingly and without grief to each other.