Empirical changes

So my job duties at the Empire have changed as the result of a team realignment, which was partially the result of my former manager getting fired while I was on vacation, for sharecropping his job.  Our new manager is a former project manager, and much more hands-on with what his team actually does, so he sat down with my dotted-line manager and came up with a new way to split the two teams that got rid of all the dotted lines.  The immediate effect of which is that effective yesterday, I’m no longer doing whole-system exchange dispatching, which I’ve done for the last three years, but instead will be doing part and service dispatches for the Federal CONUS and OCONUS program, and portable system service dispatches for portables traveling outside their home country.  I spent half the day today learning about international portables, and I’ll spend half of tomorrow learning about CONUS and OCONUS dispatches.  And in between times, I’ll sneak in some used system exchanges, just to keep me from sitting around with hands folded, waiting for something to do.