When life gives you lemons...

So yesterday I found out that my job may not be as sound as I previously thought. The corporation that contracts our little agency to do what they do has requested that we maintain our case managers (my staff) but they supply the supervision (my job) which means that I would be out. My agency is against this on many levels. I mean, basically, we would be paying people but have no say in their hiring, firing or determining the quality of their work or their value to our agency. Since we're a not for profit the decision to do this or not has to be made by the Board of Directors. Our Director, my boss, and the Assistant Director, are not for this at all but they know that if the Board decides not to do this it is likely that the corporation will not renew our contract at all.

Anyway you look at it my life will be changing. Luckily, I work for a great agency. Even though the decision hasn't been made they came to me right away to let me know this and assured me that they were not interested in letting me go. They told me that there are other things coming our way in the next few months and they will do their best to work something out for me so I can stay with the agency. I've been at this place for 15 years and I love the integrity and ethics of the agency I work for. There is a chance that the corporation would ask me to apply for the supervisor's position but I know that I can't do that. I don't agree with their practices and, honestly, these last two years working under their contract has been incredibly frustrating for my social worker's heart.

So the future is shaky. Not in ruins...just shaky and I'm sure I'll be worrying about this for some time now. The sad part is I really like my staff. I have a great team of workers who care a lot about what they do and I will miss them immensely.