Well, Now I'm Not Doing It.

This is really really good. It is a T O M E, but it’s very much focused on the facts and what is known about Vikings, and also confronts head on the parts of Viking lore and misinformation that some of our worst political ideas like to capitalize on.

Well it turns out I’m enjoying this a lot!

If I were empowered to actually make decisions, which I’m not because management just calls our management and undermines our decisions, and we weren’t in such a time crunch, I would just stop these trainings all together as it is clear it’s a waste of time.

Apparently after one of the sessions yesterday one of the divisions went and complained to some admin I’ve never met who then decided that she needed to act as the Spanish Inquisition and ask me a ton of very uninformed questions about why this was “such a fiasco,” and I told her I agreed, though it’s unclear to me why none of my constant communications had been distributed in the 10 months we had been working on this.

Like I get it. The quickest way to make a friend is to find a common enemy, and in this moment, it’s me. But that doesn’t make it ok or a good use of my time.

Also, two of the divisions just didn’t show up yesterday, because apparently asking people to look at an outlook calendar is too much to ask. Yes, we have very different jobs. No, that doesn’t mean you can opt out of the tools your management has told you you need to do your jobs.

Me, who is not a trainer, has been tasked with training a bunch of men who think that I have personally harmed them by being the project manager who is in charge of the implementation of this system.

I am stuck in a basement on the west side where people are yelling at me because they think I made these decisions, and I have to be here tomorrow and Monday.