Being downgraded
I didn’t want to discuss this, but eventually I would have had to. So, at work, we are getting kicked out of our lab. They want us out, and we were giving two split little grad student’s rooms instead on the other side of the building.
Ehm.. yah.
So, I have been living in denial and trying to just not think about it no more and just be happy and smiling and upbeat about the move. This is our last week in the big computer lab with no windows. I have been working there since 2002. Can you imagine getting kicked out of the place that started it all?
I am just not happy and it is more of a reason that I want to leave this job. Getting out of that room is like putting behind everything for the past 5.5 years. Closing a chapter in my life. It is like ending a book that was not meant to end this way. A tragic and horrible ending that was completely unexpected. Not only that, I feel that I will never go up career wise. I was just put down so much. I feel like I am nothing. I am worth nothing at all at this job and it hurts. People grow, and I can’t at all.
At times I blame my self for all this. I should have left when I had the chance. Now, everything just fell apart and gone to the worse. Only a few more weeks at this place and I should be out. I have been job hunting like crazy. I have to leave. I don’t want to feel worse than I am. Being downgraded so badly and for what? What have I done to deserve this treatment?
Oh I forgot. I am just a programmer, nothing more.

My sister and I go to the gym about 5 times a week. So one night, there were lots of people in the class. (Mostly middle aged women.) The number of coats on the hanger are obviously a lot, and the odds of someone having a similar jacket to yours is high too. As we were leaving, I grabbed my jacket and my sister’s jacket. We got into the car, and my sister tried to put it on and then says, “Mona? This is not my jacket.” My jaw dropped. I said, “oh no! You sure?” She said, “YES!” So we stopped the car and went back in. My sister was carrying the jacket and looked for hers.
Since the beginning of my blog and all the nagging and complaining I have been doing, I always get the same advice from people. “Put your self in someone else’s shoes, it could be worse!”
