Sanity -1, Stress +1
Work does that sometimes.
With the recent story as a reminder, I feel a need to tuck a work-related post under friend-only...
Especially when ranty.
The last few days have been relatively quiet and peaceful, which has worried me some. The other tech is out sometime tomorrow through the 4th, so that's about a week and a half on my own. Right there, I'm looking at some schedule tweaking. So while I'd normally work evenings this week, I think I'll need to be here during the days instead.
But there's also a small pile of things that he's been working on because he's WAY more familiar with than I am, and little procrastinations mean scrambling now to get them done before he's away for a week and a half. It won't all get done, I'm sure.
We, as a company, also seem to be going through a period of "no one knows what the heck is going on." Setting up rates in the new (8-month-old) system is something that only one person has a decent handle on at all, and it's a bit arcane and program-y for them to fully grasp. The online ad entry system that was supposed to go live back in January of February is still getting hammered out, largely because the people in charge left an no one else really knew where we were. Even now, we got together for a meeting today and someone raised a point of one aspect not working. We thought maybe we hadn't installed the software, but I checked and confirmed that I did back in mid-January and this is the first mention since that the post-install setup required hasn't been done. The circulation system was supposed to have been upgraded early this year and because people left that got postponed, requiring us to not only seek out support extensions for our current system, but also seek training. For the system we're trying to get away from.
The idiocy and duplication of work is infuriating. Literally. I probably spent the first fifteen minutes of my shift today fuming over the stupidity of it all.
And while a lot of none of these projects are mine per se, I'm expected to help in some way with all of them. I keep trying to get a handle on what parts are currently in our court so as to take care of them, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of help. We have one person who, going by department structure, should be in charge of a project that he hasn't been to one of the meetings for. I had the "joy" of sitting in on a meeting Friday that was about ten minutes of addressing individual points, then fifty of managers going on about how there needs to be more redundancy of knowledge... over and over without actually doing anything about it.
So at this precise moment, I have done all I can. I've sent a lot of email out the last couple days in the hopes of getting things moving. I wish I could say I was satisfied with that. Instead, I feel all these things that could be looming over me. Tomorrow morning, I may be required to jump, scramble, and learn new things to make something work. Or I may not. Maybe someone else will do it. Maybe such efforts won't be required. Having to just wait and see can be rather annoying at times.
The controlling part of me wants to jump in and take the reins on some of these things because apparently others can't be trusted to see them through. The rest of me points out that they really aren't my projects to run, and trying to do so would very likely overwhelm me in short order.
With the recent story as a reminder, I feel a need to tuck a work-related post under friend-only...
Especially when ranty.
The last few days have been relatively quiet and peaceful, which has worried me some. The other tech is out sometime tomorrow through the 4th, so that's about a week and a half on my own. Right there, I'm looking at some schedule tweaking. So while I'd normally work evenings this week, I think I'll need to be here during the days instead.
But there's also a small pile of things that he's been working on because he's WAY more familiar with than I am, and little procrastinations mean scrambling now to get them done before he's away for a week and a half. It won't all get done, I'm sure.
We, as a company, also seem to be going through a period of "no one knows what the heck is going on." Setting up rates in the new (8-month-old) system is something that only one person has a decent handle on at all, and it's a bit arcane and program-y for them to fully grasp. The online ad entry system that was supposed to go live back in January of February is still getting hammered out, largely because the people in charge left an no one else really knew where we were. Even now, we got together for a meeting today and someone raised a point of one aspect not working. We thought maybe we hadn't installed the software, but I checked and confirmed that I did back in mid-January and this is the first mention since that the post-install setup required hasn't been done. The circulation system was supposed to have been upgraded early this year and because people left that got postponed, requiring us to not only seek out support extensions for our current system, but also seek training. For the system we're trying to get away from.
The idiocy and duplication of work is infuriating. Literally. I probably spent the first fifteen minutes of my shift today fuming over the stupidity of it all.
And while a lot of none of these projects are mine per se, I'm expected to help in some way with all of them. I keep trying to get a handle on what parts are currently in our court so as to take care of them, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of help. We have one person who, going by department structure, should be in charge of a project that he hasn't been to one of the meetings for. I had the "joy" of sitting in on a meeting Friday that was about ten minutes of addressing individual points, then fifty of managers going on about how there needs to be more redundancy of knowledge... over and over without actually doing anything about it.
So at this precise moment, I have done all I can. I've sent a lot of email out the last couple days in the hopes of getting things moving. I wish I could say I was satisfied with that. Instead, I feel all these things that could be looming over me. Tomorrow morning, I may be required to jump, scramble, and learn new things to make something work. Or I may not. Maybe someone else will do it. Maybe such efforts won't be required. Having to just wait and see can be rather annoying at times.
The controlling part of me wants to jump in and take the reins on some of these things because apparently others can't be trusted to see them through. The rest of me points out that they really aren't my projects to run, and trying to do so would very likely overwhelm me in short order.
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