Back To Work

During my last appointment, I asked the doctor if I could return to work. She said as long as I felt okay, she is fine with me working from home. I followed-up with a medical release form required by my work, got it signed by UCLA, and they faxed it in. Everything has been approved so I am officially back to full-time work starting Monday, April 5th.

My boss, the company CFO, made some organizational changes recently. He did not show me the new org chart, buy a co-worker took a photo and sent it to me. There were a lot of changes, but the one that impacts me the most is adding two layers of managers above me. During the past 10 years, I mostly worked directly under the CFO. However, now it is CFO > Senior Director of Accounting > Director of Finance > me. It is kind of weird since I have the same title as my direct manager but I have been there much longer. The good thing is that all four of us worked previously at the same company for a long time and have known each other for over 20 years. The CFO did say that the reason for my org tree shuffle is because I need to pick up some new responsibilities. Once that’s done, I should be reporting directly to him again. I spoke to the director above me and he did not mention that fact. For now, I do not care that much since my salary did not change, and my “management” will likely stay out of my business.

I also got back the three employees that used to report to me before I switched to part-time last year. I am fine with this since I know them already and they are pretty good employees. I just do not like doing formal performance reviews since I usually talk to my staff daily.

Since most people at work are not vaccinated yet, I will work from home full-time. I am not sure when I will actually go into the office, but it will be several months out if it happens. There is probably about a half-dozen new hires that I have not met yet. Strange to think 10 years ago I was the only corporate finance employee other than the CFO.