Dream: Come back, Shane! Come back!
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mokie_edomCome back, Shane! Come back!
I dreamt that our old manager, recently transferred out of town, came back for a visit. He was wearing a different shirt, supposedly the shirt for managers in his new region, and was walking around showing it off and socializing. I wanted to talk to him about my troubles with the new manager, about how everyone was saying he'd been running things wrong, but was hesitant about going full rant on him, and felt he'd not be really interested in hearing it anyway. He's got new stuff going on, and this was a friendly visit.
One of the cashiers goosed me and pointed out that my pants were bloody, so I left to wash them. Since the old house was closer, I went there instead of home (though in the dream the basement was that of the new house) though I felt uncomfortable just walking in like I still owned the place and tossing my stuff anywhere I felt like. It didn't help that new manager was there, doing all of her laundry. That made me very uncomfortable, since I might stop in to wash up my uniform once in a while, but I didn't take advantage of the situation and wash everything I owned...
Notes and explanations
#1. Old manager was very easy to talk to. Many of us went to him first because of this, to sound out our problems at him before taking it higher up the food chain. Also, it bugs me intensely to hear him disparaged now that he's gone. As a tangent, the cashier who goosed me in the dream has been very verbal about missing him.
#2. The store uses different shirts for managers and employees, but not for regions. I think the different shirt in the dream is a way to emphasize that he's neither, that he is out of this particular hierarchy.
#3. After the bloody couch dream, another dream invoking unexpected menstrual woes! There have been a few more that refuse to be remembered, I know. Someone in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dream_analysis suggested the bloody couch dream was a simple menstrual anxiety dream ("Oh noes, what if I stain my pants?"), but the dreams are new and apparently not related to when I am actually bleeding or due to bleed. The common anxiety in these dreams relates to blame--being blamed for things I am not responsible for, or for things outside of my control.
#4. Yes, I recognize the territorial elements of the laundry scene. I recognized that the old house was no longer mine to do with as I pleased, and rationalized by imposing as little as possible--just washing my uniform and taking a small nap. I was annoyed that the new manager seemed to be doing whatever she pleased with a place that was not hers or mine. In retrospect, this makes sense in regards to waking life: I am been consciously avoiding leaving instructions for co-workers, organizing shelves, or doing anything that might seem in anyway like I was undermining her, while at the same time she has written and posted snotty notes, reorganized rooms and metaphorically pissed in all of the corners to establish that the department is "mineminemine!" now. Having been at the job much longer, I resent this more than a little. I also resent being put in a position where I am expected to train (in any way) someone who resents being trained (in any way) by those in a position below her, as she seems to do.
#5. At least I didn't dream of mounting an expedition to go and bring the old manager back kicking and screaming. That's all I'm saying.
I dreamt that our old manager, recently transferred out of town, came back for a visit. He was wearing a different shirt, supposedly the shirt for managers in his new region, and was walking around showing it off and socializing. I wanted to talk to him about my troubles with the new manager, about how everyone was saying he'd been running things wrong, but was hesitant about going full rant on him, and felt he'd not be really interested in hearing it anyway. He's got new stuff going on, and this was a friendly visit.
One of the cashiers goosed me and pointed out that my pants were bloody, so I left to wash them. Since the old house was closer, I went there instead of home (though in the dream the basement was that of the new house) though I felt uncomfortable just walking in like I still owned the place and tossing my stuff anywhere I felt like. It didn't help that new manager was there, doing all of her laundry. That made me very uncomfortable, since I might stop in to wash up my uniform once in a while, but I didn't take advantage of the situation and wash everything I owned...
Notes and explanations
#1. Old manager was very easy to talk to. Many of us went to him first because of this, to sound out our problems at him before taking it higher up the food chain. Also, it bugs me intensely to hear him disparaged now that he's gone. As a tangent, the cashier who goosed me in the dream has been very verbal about missing him.
#2. The store uses different shirts for managers and employees, but not for regions. I think the different shirt in the dream is a way to emphasize that he's neither, that he is out of this particular hierarchy.
#3. After the bloody couch dream, another dream invoking unexpected menstrual woes! There have been a few more that refuse to be remembered, I know. Someone in
dream_analysis suggested the bloody couch dream was a simple menstrual anxiety dream ("Oh noes, what if I stain my pants?"), but the dreams are new and apparently not related to when I am actually bleeding or due to bleed. The common anxiety in these dreams relates to blame--being blamed for things I am not responsible for, or for things outside of my control.#4. Yes, I recognize the territorial elements of the laundry scene. I recognized that the old house was no longer mine to do with as I pleased, and rationalized by imposing as little as possible--just washing my uniform and taking a small nap. I was annoyed that the new manager seemed to be doing whatever she pleased with a place that was not hers or mine. In retrospect, this makes sense in regards to waking life: I am been consciously avoiding leaving instructions for co-workers, organizing shelves, or doing anything that might seem in anyway like I was undermining her, while at the same time she has written and posted snotty notes, reorganized rooms and metaphorically pissed in all of the corners to establish that the department is "mineminemine!" now. Having been at the job much longer, I resent this more than a little. I also resent being put in a position where I am expected to train (in any way) someone who resents being trained (in any way) by those in a position below her, as she seems to do.
#5. At least I didn't dream of mounting an expedition to go and bring the old manager back kicking and screaming. That's all I'm saying.
