The last part of 2005 was a little stressful for me work-wise, but it’s all sorted itself out in the end. I’m not going to go into the details, except to say that there were certain things happening with resources at work that shouldn’t have been happening, and it ended up causing a lot of confusion and tension on everybody’s part.

As of the New Year, things have changed and everybody is much happier about the situation. From my personal perspective, I’ve been given a raise and and promoted to “Team Lead” of the technical division in which I work at VMware. As such, I’ve been transitioning out of being on the “front line” of taking support cases, and working instead on more managerial tasks, and team development and mentoring. In fact, as of about two hours ago, I’m no longer taking any cases at all. (Those cases I do get will be on an exception basis – most likely any that have been “escalated” for whatever reason.)

Starting next week, I, and my team, will be reporting to a different manager but that’s okay. I’ve known him just as long as my previous manager, and he’s a good guy too. The team is going out for dinner tonight so that the newer guys can get to know him.

Also, just this week, Michelle got a new job. The pay isn’t great to start, but she’ll be the first employee at the Canadian office of the American company. So, she’s on the ground floor and will have seniority over everybody else who starts. So long as she impresses people at the company (and she’s bound to) she should be going places quickly.

All in all, things are looking good all over.