As I have mentioned before I have been having some problems at work, not all of which have been due to the Social Phobia. I work in Finance and my team is Strategic Planning & Corporate Projects. The rest of the department deal with the present and near history but my team deal with the future (or any major historic analysis). With the credit crunch etc. all businesses have been having to find ways to cope especially in this industry. The company is looking into some projects and future plans which means a significant amount of extra work for my team.
Basically what my team does is split into two areas, we are responsible for costing all the projects and are heavily involved in budgetting and forcasting. The other area (the one which I greatly prefer) is we are in charge of the software and models (built using the software) that the department uses. We are trying to get as much regular work as possible off of spreadsheets and onto another system. Doing this makes everyone else's life easier and improves efficiency in the department. This also makes us appear as an IT helpdesk for the department with everyone thinking we are at their beck and call.
The problem is that due to the nature of most of the projects we work on being highly confidential, the rest of the department are not aware of what we are doing and don't understand why we aren't working on the areas which improve what they are doing. When doing these projects we usually need input from them without being able to tell them why it is needed and if they feel that we are not helping them they can be quite obstructive which leads to conflict and that makes my Social Phobia worse.
The only way round this is for my team to expand so we can still work on the developments while working on the projects. However there is a employment freeze going on at work so I hadn't pushed it but after my little facebook outburst I discussed it with my boss and we talked to the CFO. He has agreed that we will be getting more resource.
The rational part of me is very happy that I will have some extra resource to help with the work but the phobic part is freaking out. My current employee has been with us for about 18 months and I have eventually gotten comfortable working with him. He has also got used to how I work. I know I can't be the easiest boss to work for but we seem to work quite well together. The work we do is quite specialist and when we were last recruiting it was a long drawn out and painful process (at least for me).
The thought of having to interview candidates, then train up and work with someone new is playing on my mind but I know it has got to be done and it is the right way to go. I'm sure this will probably get worse as it becomes a reality but I'll just have to find a way to deal with it.
Well as I'm typing this it is Sunday evening and I've had no real human contact since Friday. Let's hope tomorrow is a good day and going to work isn't as bad as it has been recently.
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