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I just found out today that I'm being transferred from my job to a new location. New managers, new co-workers, new parking spaces and break room. So much for my ode to transition in other peoples lives. Could it be any more fitting? I haven't been told if this is a temporary move or a permanent one, but I have a former co-worker at this new location who has been "on loan" for a month or so now. My boss didn't even have the balls to tell me face to face! No, he waited till he was sneaking out the door to call me and tell me. No discussion, no asking, just a cold and quick "here's how it is", done over the phone. I'm sure I'll be fine however it turns out, but damn it all! I have stayed at my current location because of my relationships with the customers and the community. I've got plenty of reasons to leave due mostly to the managements business acumen. There is no step up at my current location, but that's a price I willingly paid for the loyalty of my customers. I traded promotion for job security and customer relationships, but hey, that's gone too! Having it all just stripped away in an impersonal and uncertain way is wrong on so many levels. I don't begrudge my boss his right to make this decision, just his approach in doing so. He didn't consider anyones opinions or feelings but his own. Fantastic management style I must say! Maybe that's why he's looking at early retirement 'eh?! Not to be too full of myself, but I've got personal relationships with enough customers that I could raise pure hell if I wanted. Transfer all of his business away and then we'll see how things stand. No, I know I don't have that much pull, but I could get a chunk of them if I tried! This is just me talking, I'm too full of steam to plan a proper strategy right now. If my transfer stands as a permanent move, well, then the gloves come off. I've got all sorts of crazy ideas and I'm too young to care about consequences. OSHA, lawyers and protesters oh my! I can fabricate enough evidence and bad press to take the whole place down! Once again, me talking out of my ass. I'm just not that kind of guy, but sometimes I wish I was. I only go up against true tyranny and oppression, not crappy bosses and lousy business decisions. And Canada. When they attack, in the middle of the night...I'm ready baby, I'm the home guard. So, here I bitch and moan about the inevitible transition my life now faces. I go forth unwillingly and with a sour disposition, to a new experience and reality. Change sucks. But only for a little while, then it becomes the constant and I can begin fearing the next change. * LEVEL UP*...