The long way home - PART II -

Posted on 2006/06/12 22:15:12 (June 2006).

[12th June 2006]

And so it was. I managed to speak to my boss in the end and I have to say that things went better than expected. He completely understood my decision, and although he was terribly sad and upset about me leaving, the company will most certainly suffer from my absence, at least for the fist season, but the fact that the decision is mostly unrelated with the job side made things a lot easier.

The new company will not compete with my present employer, and I am leaving things in a splendid way, market shares and sales rising solidly and a summer season campaing finished with quite good prospects for the future possible productions.

If I had to choose a way to leave that is certainly the best position possible, now it will be up to them to make things right, but they are already on the right path.

I have told all my relatives and parents about me coming back, and I felt that they are happy, so this is already a positive thing. Now the hardest part will come, leaving this place and above all Marta. I will also have to leave formally my Japanese agent, who I said many times is a great friend before being a business partner. Also the colleagues are not going to be easy to leave. Manuela, Paola and Carla but above all Marianna, the new assistant who is a bright one but surely will not take me leaving easily, mostly because things kicked off in a very good way with her, and I am sorry that I will not be able to attend to her professional growth anymore, even if I am sure that she will be able to do well with the little that I have passed on to her.

Practical issues are also pending, we need to "close" the present house situation, Marta has to find a new place, and I have to do the same in Florence (without being there at least at the moment).

The burden anyways is off my shoulders, now I feel that I am ready to look at the future in a better way, it's certainly going to be exciting to start something new again, let's hope that it will be successful and positive as the five years up north have been.

My boss hinted to the fact that they want to make a counter-offer, but I cannot see them being able to put on the plate my return to Florence, the main reason of me leaving. We'll see, maybe I will be completely shocked by what they will do...

All in all a positive day, I have started walking the long way home and after the week that I left it's a good feeling.

That all sounds very positive Lox, well done!

Leaving friends though is hard, but I am sure being back with your older friends and family in Florence will make up for it! :))

Bravo! :))

Posted by Nigel at 2006/06/12 23:35:41.

What about the three months notice? Are you allowed to leave the company before?

I'm curious about the counter-offer.

Anyway, congtatulations! Posso imaginarti gridare con entusiasmo e a cuore leggero: "Firenze, eccomi!"
Un nuovo capitolo comincia per te.

Sorry for Marta.

Posted by Sheri at 2006/06/13 07:58:35.

Nigel: Thanks! I am sure that things are not going to be tragic at first, a new job, new challenges, all my old friends. It's going to feel good to be back.

Sheri: Not quite. I have had a moment where I was TERRIBLY happy, but it soon died out once I started thinking about all the problems related to this move. As for Marta we will try to make it work from distance. It's not going to be easy but it's worth a try, I don't want to waste five years just like that.

Posted by Lox at 2006/06/13 08:44:54.

Ciao Lorenz!
You see, in the end I'm _writing_ ;) (even if I'm under the effect of beer and marshmallows :p)
Well, I'm happy that you managed to talk to the boss and free yourself from this burden, but still, it makes me a bit sad (mmh, maybe more than a bit :p) thinking that you'll be going away soon... I mean, I had just started really getting into the new job and also getting on well with you! I fear the office will be terribly boring once you leave... :p
When I read about the "breaking news" the other day I felt kind of destabilised (??)... I hate sudden changes, I had just moved to this office, and now I'll have to start everything again and adapt to work with another person. It's not so easy, also because I'm quite emotional e io mi affeziono alle persone!! (when they moved me here, for the first ten days I went on crying every time I went back home, and couldn't stand anyone asking me about the new job 'cause I immediately started crying!!! I had to "leave" many people who have been always very kind to me, who had kind of "adopted" me, and knowing that I wouldn't work with them anymore made me sad, even if in the end I'm just in the office nearby! I know it sounds stupid, I hate being like this, but if something makes me sad I just cannot keep it inside...)
Sorry but today I'm quite in a depressed mood, can't write much more!
ciao ciao :)

Posted by sakura at 2006/06/13 15:36:40.

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