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Back in August my boss hired two more assistants for the lab. This was very welcome because in addition to having some help with the numerous projects on which I've been working alone for the past nine months, this meant that someone else was going to take over making fly food. So I spent the past two months training the new minions for all of the various tasks they would perform. One minion was sent off to work on finishing up The Unending Project of Doom, and the other minion worked with me. My minion was the one taking over the fly food duties.
Unfortunately, she quit. Her last day was today. When dealing with rejection, I find it hard to not look back and try to identify things that I might have done wrong. Did I overwhelm her with too much too soon? Was it the fly food? Was it because I repeatedly referred to her as "my minion," to her face?
Now I must begin the arduous task of raising a new minion. It was really nice that the previous minion was able to start in August, because that allowed me to spend two 40 hour weeks training her. Now I'm left with 15 hours a week, whenever our schedules align. And really, when it gets down to it, I'm just not sure if I have room yet in my heart for a replacement minion.
Posted at: 21:46
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