Sometimes I wish I could be more prolific like Blondie and speak my heart and mind. Maybe I'm not cut out for the blogosphere. I can visualize what I want to write about, but when it comes to committing it to bits & bytes, nothing happens. Someone suggested that I try stream of conscious style writing, but still nothing comes.

Hmmm, well there is one thing; we have a situation at work where one employee is being displaced from her position and the person causing the displacement slated to start working the position next week. There's been a lot - a lot - of smack spoken about the new person and it feels like a lynch mob mentality. I believe there are always two sides to every story/situation and I'm willing to give the new gal the benefit of the doubt.

It's hard, though, because the exiting employee is very well liked and connected. She in turn has done everything she can to portray herself the victim and the new employee the villain. So any efforts on my part to dispel some of the rumors, have been met with suspicion and derision. Not exactly a warm, cuddly feeling, know what I mean?

The situation is what it is and the sooner we accept and deal with it, the better off we'll be individually and as a department. The displacement is no ones fault. Hell, the new gal's just trying to hang on to her job like the rest of us. The exiting employee still has employment, just not in our department, so it's not like she's two shades of being homeless or anything.