Details and the Bigger Picture

Well, things have been odd around the office lately. I've been given the time to finish my projects for inventory and item management, because they won't get done at all otherwise. People have been making more of an effort to talk with me because they know i won't be there forever. I had a hunch it would be the best two weeks there, the ones after my notice.

Today, there was another hard piece of news: Steve is leaving. Now, he's the one other than Denisse that i'm going to miss the most. He's also a good 14 years older than i am, married with a baby, and will generally be difficult to maintain a real friendship with given the way things are.

But aside from the me-oriented sadness, he's been at Global Protection for a long time (9 years) and that makes for an extremely difficult transition for the company. I know i haven't been there for 9 years or anything, but i've been there for a year and a half (more than that, actually), and as large of a hole as i'm going to leave (which will be sizeable, the pres poor Davin has finally realized -- too little too late), Steve is going to leave a HUGE hole. I'm overwhelmed, and i'm not even going to be there when he leaves! There were tears. He wasn't there today (it was an optional floating holiday), so the pres brought people other than me and Denisse out to lunch to deliver the sad news.

In addition to him leaving, he's going to Atlanta to work for Durex (members of the competition). So yeah, i feel really bad for everyone there, particularly Davin since Davin and Steve are close friends and have been since before Steve started working for Davin. Losing one of your best friends to the competition has gotta hurt. But as Denisse said, "if you leaving wasn't enough to make him realize he has to start changing the way he treats his employees, losing Steve had better push him over the edge."