Chicago Chick: Oh the Cattiness!

So today I gave notice at my current company where I worked for 13 days - or at least it will be 13 days by the time I leave. Honestly, I'm not a flighty person; I just take my career very VERY seriously and was taught that it is nobody else's responsibility but my own to manage my career. I learned that from Al, a manager I worked with while I was in Internal Audit and I haven't forgotten it since.

I spoke to one of the VPs at my current company - a VP because the company I work for now has about 50 employees - and the conversation did not go well. She actually made me feel like I was 10 years old and that I was caught coming home late. I've given notice to other employers before and it's always been a "it's about business it's not personal" so the response I received from the VP was shocking.

What was even more shocking was the response that I got from the people on my project team. I told them about the conversation and apparently something I said when I recounted the conversation pissed them off although they didn't act like it in front of me. Actually, I was getting a strange vibe from 2 of my 3 co-workers and I was correct that something was wrong. The 3rd co-worker let me know that the other 2 were upset.

I don't beat around the bush so I asked one of the 2 if we were "okay" and she came back all smiles saying that everything was fine. There is one thing that I absolutely hate and that is a liar and this co-worker was a liar. I cannot understand why, if someone has an issue with what you said/did and is willing to go and call the VP I spoke to to cover her ass, that person wouldn't tell you that there was an issue.

So, what was it that I said? I have no idea what made them so angry, but I think it may have to do with me questioning why we needed 4 people to copy and paste information from a report to a spreadsheet. But, seriously I cannot understand why so many people are needed when I was able to complete my work and my co-worker's work (one of the 2 that are mad at me) in a matter of 2 days. And trust me, the time lines are really long on this project too. I suppose it has to do with the consultant concept of making your work seem important and maybe I wasn't sensitive to that. But I cannot feel good about working on something where I'm bilking the client.