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Work Trouble
Jun. 17th, 2006 09:10 pmThe last two weeks (just Freudian slipped and typed 'months') at work were obscenely difficult to cope with, and it's only going to get worse, as the aftermath of the debacle hits. One of the managers, who had most of the blame for it laid on her, has quit, and is leaving. The big boss doesn't want to hire anyone ese to cover her work, in a department that just proved it was already stretched beyond its limits. Fortunately for me, as her duties were primarily organizational, and my skills on that area are comparable only to a male bovine in a fine eating utensil emporium, I will not be asked to cover her work, although some of the work of others may slide onto my shoulders. I'll cope.
The main problemhere has been the attitude of the big boss, and his lackey downstairs. It appears the first instinct of the BB was to lay blame. Now, the job was initially pushed back a week because the BB re-wrote the questionnaire (it's an incredible mess, by the way, including massive spelling errors and routing mistakes) and then the client moved forward the date they wanted it without warning, meaning we only had three weeks from the end of fieldwork to tables. The only people whose fault it was were the big boss and the client, yet she got the blame.
It seems that in this company, there is a much greater emphasis on ladelling out blame than there is on solving problems. In all the arguments and accusations, it seems that actually fixing things gets forgotten about. Mind you, most of the world's that way, it seems. Whenever there's a problem in the government, the media starts howling for the blood of a spacegoat rather than getting the problem fixed.
OH, and the Doctor Who episode? Best one so far. It only features a couple of minutes of the Doctor, and he doesn't even destroy the monster, but it's a brilliant view of the effects the Doctor has on those who get left behind, and Jackie gets a lot of screen time.
The main problemhere has been the attitude of the big boss, and his lackey downstairs. It appears the first instinct of the BB was to lay blame. Now, the job was initially pushed back a week because the BB re-wrote the questionnaire (it's an incredible mess, by the way, including massive spelling errors and routing mistakes) and then the client moved forward the date they wanted it without warning, meaning we only had three weeks from the end of fieldwork to tables. The only people whose fault it was were the big boss and the client, yet she got the blame.
It seems that in this company, there is a much greater emphasis on ladelling out blame than there is on solving problems. In all the arguments and accusations, it seems that actually fixing things gets forgotten about. Mind you, most of the world's that way, it seems. Whenever there's a problem in the government, the media starts howling for the blood of a spacegoat rather than getting the problem fixed.
OH, and the Doctor Who episode? Best one so far. It only features a couple of minutes of the Doctor, and he doesn't even destroy the monster, but it's a brilliant view of the effects the Doctor has on those who get left behind, and Jackie gets a lot of screen time.
