It has been a long while now that I first set foot in South Africa. Sitting on my couch this morning I was thinking that many things have happened since then at work. Yesterday was the last day of our team manager. We were until recently a team of three in close contact all year long.
He left for personal reasons, back to his retired life, the one he had before the company went to fetch him for a heavy cash price (I can only assume). Nevertheless his departure was unexpected: announced three weeks ago he came back ten days to sort things out. And now he’s gone.
Work was difficult at first, for many various reasons, and I don’t think our relation was the best that one could expect. The good thing is that since then things had been going better rand better. These past six months the team was running like a steam engine at it’s best, full throttle – professional interface in your face, yes dear. It is with that feeling that we hadn’t reach our limits, of work in progress that I had to say goodbye to him.
I have also come to realise only recently many things he had said probably unconsciously but that were very true. One of them was « it’s just one big game ». At the time, one big game for me, was only a series of tense meetings with loud disrespectful discussions and cynical dialogs, fed by the numerous vicious letters that were sent around. I just realised what he meant then.
Anyway it’s when things change that you truly understand how they worked before and in these past weeks I have become a little more experienced all of a sudden. The team and the project has lost an important asset, but selfishly thinking : this is a great opportunity for me with more responsibilities and even more exposure to… the game.
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