Hasty Judgement

Long-time readers know - most likely from my Empress-appreciation-post - that I tend to make hasty judgements and more often than not end up reversing them months, or sometimes years, later. Case in point, my most recent manager who has now left the company with the end of January. While I took an instant dislike to her after first meeting her and she and her leadership style almost made me leave the company myself, pre-Pandemic, she really grew on me over the years and I think the feeling was mutual. I often complained about her and eyed everyone who praised her with suspicion for years, but in the grand scheme of things and my retrospective ranking of all the people managers I have had in my career she doesn't score so badly at all. Our team's new manager should be announced within a few weeks and I am now curious whether history is about to repeat itself or whether the opposite might be the case, i.e. that I initially like them and then change my mind and end up despising them. We shall see.