I don't get paid enough for this.

My boss was the highest rank possible before he retired. With his retirenment, yes the good news is that I am now getting the training I wanted, but I am also getting the headaches and trouble that he had to deal with. Actually the challenges are worse becasue I do not have the rank to back up the decisions I have to make in my position.

When I let someone know some news they do not like, they start fighting/aruging and demanding to talk to someone else. I send them to my boss, who turns around and asks me to detail everything so that he can tell them exactly what I just said hours earlier. *SIGH*

I don't get paid enough for these headaches. *laugh* I'm actually a deal at $94 less per day compared to my old boss. In all fairness, he had over 35 years experience. I do not even try to attempt to say that I replace him and his knowledge. But I sure could use the influence of the rank he carried. If there was one motivational reason to get moving and get promoted, the challenges I had this past two weeks would qualify.

That's how things have looked for me the last little while. I'll be off to NB for another two weeks for more training. Until then Enjoy!