notice of risk of redundancy

have had a slightly surreal weekend. on friday afternoon there was a staff meeting at work so that we could be updated on the ongoing structural changes in our work. we have been aware of these for a while now and with a new bishop and following a staffing review, a new staff structure was being created. we have also been told that there would be loss of jobs and as i work in one of the affected departments was aware that this would personally affect me.

however i was surprised by the method chosen and the number of job cuts that are being made. there are eleven of us on notice of risk of redundancy, 5 officers and 6 admin staff, and whilst there are 7 new posts being created, it doesn't take much effort to 'do the math'. i think the timing has also been a bit pants as we were told on friday afternoon with a series of interviews, for those affected, set up for today and wednesday, but then we were told to go home for the weekend and forget about it. as if...

unfortunately today i am only half fit for work and have a meeting this evening, so have not been in the office today, so am missing out on the general thoughts of my colleagues. i think more is being made clear through the individual interviews, but until then there are a lot of question marks and not even the chance to look at the summary job descriptions for the available posts. hopefully i will find out more when i am in tomorrow.

i suppose there is no easy way to deal with this kind of job loss, and in some ways treating everyone the same is fair. but some work has already been done in this re-organisation and those posts were treated slightly differently with posts being advertised and people invited to apply. i had assumed and from my recollection of previous meetings been told that this was the way that this process was being organised. therefore it was a shock to be told that i was at risk of redundancy in the way that i was. matthew and i have been doing some talking over the weekend and obviously there are a couple of the new jobs that i shall apply for, though i have to also say on a personal level that the timing is also pants as i really do not want to be thinking about application forms and interviews at this particular point, i would rather be concentrating on getting fully fit.

talking of which, i had an inr this morning, which has climbed to the heady heights of 5.6, so have to reduce warfarin and go back again next week. still building points towards my frequent visitor status...