Today was my boss’ last day at work. Dan is retiring after 35 years with the State. He’ll probably do some part time consulting work out of his home which will be in Greensboro. His wife is a professor at UNC-G.
Dan’s a very low key person and today was pretty much like any other. No big fuss or anything. Just orange juice and donuts. Which is kind of weird. Every time we have a staff meeting, minor social function, or what have you – it’s almost always OJ and donuts. One healthy and the other not. Odd little thing we have going here.
The group of us that work together went out to lunch with Dan earlier this week and the rest of the office took him out to lunch yesterday.
Mike takes over Monday as the new Deputy Director.
We (Mike, Ross, Ralph and I) have been talking on a regular basis and I think we’ve got the transition covered while Mike gets acclimated to his new position.
Mike and I and Ralph have some ideas we want to try to improve efficiency and provide some added value to our work.
Ralph and I are also working up a project that, if we’re successful, has the potential to save the State some serious money with building operating expenses. As that progresses, I may blog about it later.
Mike told me today he’s a little nervous – but it will work out just fine. There’s a lot of ‘real’ politics that comes with the job – not the ‘office’ variety. That comes with the territory when dealing with large chunks of taxpayer money. Our group is all top notch professionals and we can tackle anything that comes our way.
Bottom line, maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but today was just another day at the office.
Change happens.
No big deal.
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