Comments on: Welcome to your professional frustration http://keywordscarf.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/welcome-to-your-professional-frustration/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:55:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: SEO http://keywordscarf.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/welcome-to-your-professional-frustration/#comment-35 SEO Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:08:43 +0000 http://keywordscarf.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/welcome-to-your-professional-frustration/#comment-35 very nicely done article, thank you. very nicely done article, thank you.

]]> By: David Bgwood http://keywordscarf.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/welcome-to-your-professional-frustration/#comment-9 David Bgwood Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:11:09 +0000 http://keywordscarf.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/welcome-to-your-professional-frustration/#comment-9 If you have any control over the meetings, there are some things you can do to make them much quicker. Reduce the comfort. No snacks or drinks provided. No chairs, folks have to stand till the meeting is over. No electronics, leave phones, laptops, etc. outside. More ideas at: http://www.43folders.com/2007/10/01/field-reports-guerrilla-office-tactics If you have any control over the meetings, there are some things you can do to make them much quicker. Reduce the comfort. No snacks or drinks provided. No chairs, folks have to stand till the meeting is over. No electronics, leave phones, laptops, etc. outside.

More ideas at:
http://www.43folders.com/2007/10/01/field-reports-guerrilla-office-tactics

]]> By: thedonofpages http://keywordscarf.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/welcome-to-your-professional-frustration/#comment-8 thedonofpages Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:54:31 +0000 http://keywordscarf.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/welcome-to-your-professional-frustration/#comment-8 Talk is cheap. That's why we have committees. Wouldn't it be easier to slap people with a dead trout instead of an angry trout? Nothing ever happens until some manager allocates the funding for the project. Managers don't fund a project until they believe in the project. Managers don't believe in a project they don't understand. Managers don't understand the project because they are too busy to learn. Maybe somebody else can learn for them, but then the manager has to trust that one person's judgement. Better to get the recommendation of several persons such as a committee. Unfortunately the committee doesn't say this will save us lots of money, so the manager holds off on the project until it will. Managers expect you to solve cost problems by thinking outside the box, because they can't think outside the budget. Quality is not cost effective, so the project is too poorly designed to work reliably. Even if it will work, the manager won't believe it works until someplace else does it. Someplace else won't do it because they also have managers. I work at the library not just for the money, but especially the entertainment. I get to see the projects flop, but am too lowly to get blamed for it. Talk is cheap. That’s why we have committees. Wouldn’t it be easier to slap people with a dead trout instead of an angry trout? Nothing ever happens until some manager allocates the funding for the project. Managers don’t fund a project until they believe in the project. Managers don’t believe in a project they don’t understand. Managers don’t understand the project because they are too busy to learn. Maybe somebody else can learn for them, but then the manager has to trust that one person’s judgement. Better to get the recommendation of several persons such as a committee. Unfortunately the committee doesn’t say this will save us lots of money, so the manager holds off on the project until it will. Managers expect you to solve cost problems by thinking outside the box, because they can’t think outside the budget. Quality is not cost effective, so the project is too poorly designed to work reliably. Even if it will work, the manager won’t believe it works until someplace else does it. Someplace else won’t do it because they also have managers. I work at the library not just for the money, but especially the entertainment. I get to see the projects flop, but am too lowly to get blamed for it.

]]> By: Sam http://keywordscarf.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/welcome-to-your-professional-frustration/#comment-7 Sam Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:04:10 +0000 http://keywordscarf.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/welcome-to-your-professional-frustration/#comment-7 Hmm. Sounds like that is going around. I've been chronically irritated of late with work, and I've realized it has to do with the complete non-moving nature of it these days. People keep pretending we're "in transition" but really we're not. We're still hashing out the same old crap, and no one will admit that. My boss' answer to everything is "COMMITTEE!!" and then it takes months to get the damn thing together and lots and lots of talking and nothing ever moves forward. There is nothing that makes me want to slap people with angry trout more than people pretending they are "on board" with an idea when really they are banging holes in the ship. Hmm. Sounds like that is going around. I’ve been chronically irritated of late with work, and I’ve realized it has to do with the complete non-moving nature of it these days. People keep pretending we’re “in transition” but really we’re not. We’re still hashing out the same old crap, and no one will admit that. My boss’ answer to everything is “COMMITTEE!!” and then it takes months to get the damn thing together and lots and lots of talking and nothing ever moves forward. There is nothing that makes me want to slap people with angry trout more than people pretending they are “on board” with an idea when really they are banging holes in the ship.

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