[juanbenae]

so in a nut shell i changed jobs about 7 months ago, it was a hard adjustment from a field inspector for a public agency to working as a purchasing agent for a large home builder's off-site development division. at 1st i did not care for my boss one bit but after 5 or 6 months we had hit a common ground and i had learned the job after a quite a bit of personnel struggle with it. things were real good about the 1st of the year, i was continuing to learn a lot, figured out how to deal with the bossman, really like the people i worked with and was actually enjoying my job.

so about two weeks ago they fire my boss, seems good right? not so much. his position was "eliminated", a guy that worked 50+ hours a week position is eliminated with no replacement? he was the civil engineer guy that had all the nuts and bolts of each job committed to memory and was meticulous. me not so much. the guy that took over for him is a VP, his old boss and a guy that now wears too many hats being in charge of two departments. he is a sharp guy, yet i am not sure if he realizes the scope of the nuts and bolts. you know the devils in the details.

i recognized that my responsibilities were about to increase, looked forward to the challenge. i had just gotten to the point of what i knew revealed to me what i DID NOT know, not entirely confident but was ready for the challenge. the last few weeks i have noticed things changing a bit, things not being done as thoroughly. i no longer have the resource of the old bossman's knowledge and i am making more "calls" w/o his guidance. the new guy operates more from the hip and gut and i am seeing old guidelines that represented order being tossed aside. now absent i am concerned this lack of attention to detail i had come to expect from my old boss may cast me as a fall guy at some point when the house of cards comes down.

did i also mention that i was just handed another field assignment job that is the problem child job in a real problem city? this additional work of field management was something i had coveted when i first switched jobs, but right now it seems like bad timing to me. i am not one that can do two jobs half assed and sleep at night. i feel that both responsibilities may suffer with the workload, figure field work = roadtime. i know i am not sleeping well at night.

should i talk with this VP and voice my concerns, telling him i need to concentrate on my increased responsibilities in my current position and leave the field stuff for another time? thing is reviews and bonuses are due in a matter of weeks so its not a "can't do" time of year. but really if i fail so does this VP guy.

i have been obsessing on work to the extent that i am losing sleep and its consuming my being. not talking to the VP guy, but not being efficient at either job. i run over laundry list of work stuff all hours of the night, this weekend it was crippling.

thanks for any ideas on how to approach the discussion with management, dealing with the stress, and what i might be best served doing.

T$

PS- did i mention i knew this VP socially a bit before i took the job?