Talking to some of the people here yesterday about my impending change in work, I had someone make the observation that I seemd 'de-mob happy'.
Now this phrase is nothing insulting or actually mob related, its just a phrase meant to imply that you have a relxed attitude knowing that you will soon be departing this particular bastion of industry.
But there's very little about this active period of demob that makes me in any way happy. Obviously there is the anticipation of the new job (which will be AWESOME), because this particular demob also comes in the wake of a project 'deferral' that arrived in the height of our activities, I'm left distinctly demotivated rather than anything else.
One of the endemic problems in this industry is its capacity to allow politics to curtail peoples work without warning, without anything other than an abrupt removal of everything you've tried to achieve.
So no, I'm not demob happy. I'd far rather have gone out of this place having achieved pur goals and made something of it all, rather than spending the next few weeks caretaking paperwork. As it gets closer, I probably will get to demob happy as the implications of the new job sink in, but as of right now, there are a number of people here very demob unhappy
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