Thursday afternoon, my supervisor told me she was taking another job within the company.  She leaves at the end of the month.  And I am scared.  She has taught me nearly everything I know.  And while we have clashed from time to time, I am very thankful to her for showing me the ropes of how to work this job.  (And frankly, whenever we have clashed it's because she told me I did something wrong ... and after I got my internal mini-tantrum, I realized I did do something wrong.)

Still, I keep going to her to ask, "What should I do here?  Where do I go to ask for this?" etc.  In a few weeks I won't be able to do that anymore.  And like my co-worker who retired from The Third Department, not only will the workload she once did probably be saddled onto me and the other three who work the same position as I, I will be lost as to what to do when tricky problems crop up.  I need her, and (and I don't care how clingy this sounds), I miss her already.