In which waaaaaay too much happens

There is so much going on right now. It almost feels like I'm shutting down, but I'm so antsy. I can't focus and I can't sleep.

Woohoo

The IUD is out! The lady what did it was great, and she gave me tons of info about getting pregnant. If I'm not pregnant and haven't had a regular period in 3 months, I'm supposed to go back. It turns out that I may have some ovarian cyst thing that makes me not ovulate. No egg = no baby :(

Of course, if that is true, does that mean that we aren't supposed to have kids? I'm sure I'll be noodling on that for a while. 

I got in

I was officially accepted into my MBA program. It's exciting but kind of overwhelming. I won't graduate until the spring of 2015. That seems so far away right now. Of course, a month seems far away right now. 

I got out

That brings us to event #3. My work is laying me off. 

Well, I got to choose between that or working clinical. I have no interest in working in that hell. They may have paid me the same wage, but it still would have been a demotion. Not to mention that I do not want to spend my days playing with concentrated bacteria. There is no way that would be good for me and the future baby.

While I'm happy to be getting away from the company, I'm pretty upset with how all of this is going down. January was rough with the bereavement leave issue, the tuition fiasco, and the archiving mess. I was already past the end of my rope.

My anniversary with the company was on 01/31 and on 02/01 my direct report pulled me into a meeting. First she accused me of not sharing information with her and knowing more than she did. After examining the completely blank look on my face for a few minutes she then let me know that all of my duties were being reassigned and that my position was being eliminated. I had the option of being moved into clinical full time or part time or to get laid off. If I was laid off I would get unemployment and cobra, etc. 

I was to go home and think about it. Oh, and I wasn't supposed to tell anyone about it. (I really hate how they do everything in a super secret manner, I once didn't know that a girl quit for 2 months because management never let anyone know)

I knew what I wanted to do, and my husband 100% supported me. Hell, even my dad agreed with me (which never happens).

I told my direct report on Monday morning that I was going to accept being laid off.  I asked her when I would get some kind of a layoff letter, and she basically told me that they would do it when they felt like it. She wouldn't even give me a last day, but I was to only train the people taking over my duties effective immediately. 

HR let me know that they would have the letter ready for me on Thursday. That didn't happen. There was still no sign of it when I left on Thurs or when I checked in on Friday.

The anger finally set in when my direct report mentioned that I would be working there until the archive project was done. What the fuck? I hate the damn archive project. They are laying me off, why should I have to stay and finish it? Oh and she was disappointed in me for talking to the girl I was training about when she wanted me to train her. She said that I wasn't supposed to tell anyone anything until she made an announcement. Well, I'm not sure how I was supposed to start training people immediately when they didn't even know that they were taking on their duties. Nice situation there.

I feel so powerless! I hate this!