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Thursday, December 12, 2019

the last week

today: mostly spent trying to leave something positive behind. mostly succeeding. at 5pm hearing that someone had discovered a bug in our project that was supposed to go out on tuesday, at 7pm leaving the building having fixed the bug. coming home to a big dinner and the croods.

wednesday: announcing my resignation to the team, and witnessing just how quickly news travels through the organization. getting a real apology from my strongest teammate (the one i'm convinced is on the spectrum), and toxic avenger arranging a farewell lunch which i presume is to make it look like everything's okay. i'm wondering if she's smart enough to avoid talking to me at the lunch tomorrow.

a really important meeting with the other senior engineers, getting to see them get the ball rolling to prevent other new seniors from going through what i did.

coming home and spending a few hours sorting out my mother's computer, eventually discovering that the reason she hasn't been able to log in is because her keyboard is broken and it's impossible to enter her password correctly...

working until midnight to write up feedback on my manager. that was a really, really tough task. i tried to be fair, but it's pretty darned scathing.

tuesday: the awkwardness of handing over things while waiting to make an announcement with my line manager. speaking of which, i still haven't spoken to my direct manager about any of this. i might not. i don't know.

spending some time reworking an old project for sailor and being fairly satisfied with it.

monday: the newly renovated offices are fantastic. high pressure to complete the project, three of us struggling with a mystery and me enjoying the gratifying sensation of uncovering the bug. pushing the button on my resignation, and promptly learning that i probably shouldn't have cancelled their visa assistance, but whatever.

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this has been a long week with very little electricity, we even got up to stage 6 load-shedding. businesses are losing insane quantities of money and the fat-cats who've stolen so much from everybody are not going to jail.

i'm really tired. i think it's because i'm relatively relaxed for the first time in a long, long time. i've learned a lot over the course of the past ten months. a LOT. but i'm really happy to be out of there, and i'm looking forward to some summer holidays and whatever 2020 may bring ^_^

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