Transitions

Sorry so late, guys. I posted a comment earlier this morning saying that I signed on just to find out what the topic was when I suddenly remembered that Glenn posted the last one, which means its my turn now. I repeat it because I just checked, and it didn't seem to post *shrug.*

The reason I've been so slammed lately is because Friday was the last day my company was known as DFI International. From now on, it's DeticaDFI. I got pulled into some of the transitional communication issues on top of my already big workload, so I've been pretty swamped.

But that got me thinking about transitions. There's been a lot of whispers since they announced that the company was bought in February, especially since we didn't have any warning until they were doing the final paperwork-- Detica is a publicly owned company in England on the London stock exchange, so legally they weren't allowed to announce it early to anyone but the seniors. A lot of people wondered if they would loose their jobs, if some of the more useless managers would loose their jobs, if we would loose some of our contracts, if we would be able to dump our sub-contractors, if we would have to give up happy hour Fridays, etc., etc.

I have to say, though, that the senior management team has done a very good job of have meeting after meeting after meeting (including parties and bribes of free food and drinks) to make sure we're all ok with it. In fact, by today's rooftop happy hour, we were all sick of hearing the motivational speeches. Now, since the final paperwork and approval just went through and we were only today officially DeticaDFI, the full effect of the integration remains to be seen. But it has caused some stress.

I've noticed I've been forgetting a lot of stuff lately, even though I would swear I did it. I've been a little irritable. I've had slight trouble sleeping (and I am usually a very sound and easy sleeper). I've almost dreaded going to work some days, just because I knew I had so much to do there. In all, I'm glad this is official now and I can relax a little about it.

I think all transitions cause a lot of stress and can throw us all into a bit of a tailspin if we're not careful. So tell me about your transitions: perhaps from high school to college, college to employment, moving from one place to another, whatever. How have they affected you?