End of the Island

For the last three of four weeks, me and my sub-team have sat in our own little island, surrounded by a sea of empty desks. However, this weekend our rather enjoyable isolation (it's been great to be able to sit in a corner and do whatever we've pleased for a couple of weeks... and you'd probably be surprised how often this has actually been work) comes to an end. The hordes of contractors and scattering of permanent employees that make up the rest of our larger team comes to join us Knowing what to call these various levels of the hierarchy is a problem - there are in fact, 4 levels of grouping referred to as "team" in our organisation before you get to the groupings known as "department", "division" and "Company" topped off by "Group" which is the big bad multinational... I think. I get so confused!

Even worse, my bosses-boss is going to sit right behind me. Good job that he (like my more direct boss) is hardly ever at his desk, and even if he wasn't wouldn't know what I was actually supposed to be doing.

Ho-hum!