The ego’s of little boy’s must be appeased!!!

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How did June fare in the scheme of things??? Not as I would have chosen it to for sure… It turns out my Saturn returns, leaving did take a bit longer than we had seen in January, and when she pushed it out in May it landed at the end of June early July *this was way more accurate**… I did not keep my job, though through some kind people pushing; as well as mercury retrograde I held it longer than had originally been planned… Thank you mercury retrograde **there is a sentence you will rarely hear me use**… Today was my last day, though I am technically on vacation until the end of the month…
I have been trying to make sense of all of this over the last week or so, and not finding the answer to what actually happened… When they called me into the office I knew I was being let go, I just couldn’t see why??? Truthfully I do a great job, and I can complete the work of two almost three people… So it makes little sense… Not to mention the week before, I had a reading and when I asked about my job and was it time to go now??? I was told no that I was to remain two to four months to complete the lessons of why I had been brought there… That another opportunity would arrive at that time… **this timeline turned into two to four weeks**
So I had settled into the whole thing focusing on holding love and compassion for my boss in order to move through the triggers he activated… He triggered just the worst things in me, especially when he would lie to me… I couldn’t, not say horrible things to him… Gratefully the majority of that has passed, and the conversations since have been genuine and kind… I really do not like to be mean to anyone… Of course it is sometimes called for, and yet if it is not necessary I would rather not… I am grateful this relationship is ending, and ending on a kind note is wonderful…
Yesterday, in the late morning I started to get all the pictures of what had taken place… It is such an unusual experience to have happen… I was just standing trying to sort where everyone had gone when all the sudden, this energy started creating pictures… I guess it is like I finally stop pushing my thoughts into a specific direction, which leaves a space for something else to occur… I remember being scattered for a bit, and not really knowing what it all meant… Then at the end of the day, all the stress and such of trying to clean up my work, and finish up the project we had been doing caught up to me while talking to my boss… He had me go into the conference room and he began telling me what had really happened behind the scenes over the last couple months… At which point between the things said by him and those said to me over the last few months, it all began to fall into place… I should have seen it before now and yet I figured out of sight out of mind… **Not this Time**
So to back track a bit, a few months ago everyone I had been working with was either let go or transitioned… My team of five became just me… The other member that remained with the company was transitioned to a new team, also being sent out of town for three weeks **just the worst three weeks really**… During this time so many things took place, setting into motion what would ultimately end my position… I have told you about much of what happened in many of the posts here; and yet it appears I missed one…
On one particular day, a conversation took place about marriage… This conversation was between me and my boss, and the guy that would become the manager of our whole department… This conversation did not show relationships as something that were pleasant; in fact it was quite derogatory regarding how men feel about the woman they marry… This was one of those conversations that set the tone for how I would interact with both of these men in the future… One of the things said by the manager was that he was searching for his next ex-wife, as he had been married many times before… I remember thinking this guy is such a pig!!! I realized somewhere over the next week as conversations such as these played out, this guy was flirting… EWE!!! So not gonna happen… He did not get that I was not interested; though he made no real effort, so I figured that was it… NOPE!!!
When we (my other team member and I) had moved our stations and started transitioning from one manager to another, this guy (the manager) would come by and chat about work, and various other things… He would make little comments, often I was busy and not paying any attention to him… However on one particular day, he was making comments about this former team member and his frame, and I remember thinking WTF??? Then he makes a comment to him about how he and I chat through IM, and how that was just lazy… I realize this seems innocuous, and yet I knew at that moment the manager was trying to impact my point of view around how we (my other team member and I) communicate with each other, as if it is wrong… When it did the complete opposite… However it did confirm what several people had been discussing, about who I had been talking with on IM… Oh the joy of gossip!!!
I questioned this energy a lot over the next couple weeks; I even worked with a friend regarding the intent, to make sure I had not misunderstood what had taken place… Over those last couple weeks, before this manager left for three months on business… I was far from willing to engage in his ego trip, and misguided attempts for my attention… I remember the last couple comments he was irked at my lack of amusement with him… I just wanted him to go, so I could get back to work…
Oh but the ego of the little boy is not easily appeased, when it feels it has been wronged… Shortly after he left on his trip, I began receiving requests for an explanation of what I do, as well as a process manual walking them through each step… I had several heated conversations with my boss, asking was I being replaced??? As these requests were coming from my counterparts, and were quite insistent; as well as worded in a way that came through as if I were being fired… My boss told me again and again that I was not being let go; as we began creating the process documentation for my work… We would also finally be given the project he (my boss)and I had worked to get for me… However that would be given to the team off shore by the manager, with me training them on how to do it, as well as I was to stop all the other work I had been doing and just work orders… We completed this in record time and were given three times the amount of the initial order; this project has great potential to bring in a lot of work for the company… This was the same day I was told I was being laid off for a lack of work… **HAHAHAHA* I was laid off due to a little boy’s ego…
In the conversation with my boss yesterday, it was explained that this manager had wanted me (all of us, my boss and another project lead, and me) fired well over a month before it was actually done, and that he (the manager) had pushed our off shore VP to make it happen… The VP here held it off for as long as he could, and was then forced to make it happen… Gratefully he chose to give us all warning, and a chance to seek another position…
Please know that in this story, I am grateful for those who have continued to back me, to gift me the time to complete what was needed in my journey, and to handle this situation with kindness… I know this could have been so much worse and created a real hardship not only for me, but for the others let go as well…
How does it get better than that???