Dead Before Deadline
What would you do if your Boss brought you a project at 9:35am that is due at 10am? You came in early, handed the project to your Boss for final changes at 8:25am and urged him that it is due at 10am. He hands it back at 9:35am. Visualize a Chicken, head cut off, running.
You are annoyed that in only 25 minutes you are expected to contact your designer, have him make the changes, save it and send it back to you so you can send it along for publication. 9:55am. Keep in mind you will obviously have to proofread again and get it back to the designer for a few other tweaks. Once you proofread and send it back to him you find he is unavailable to make said tweaks because he is already in another meeting. 10:15am. The deadline has passed. That Chicken with it's head cut off is still running in circles in your cubicle. Time ticks away, it is now 10:45am. 11:00am. 11:20am...
[Here I am, doing all the work and trying my best to make things work and get stuff done and everyone around you is making it soooo difficult. Why is that? It's one of those WTF? moments that just boggles the mind. It happens to everyone, I know, nothing new here, but it's more common place here than the exception to the rule. Does anyone even understand how insufficient they are at their jobs and how their inefficiency affects other peoples jobs? Oh and most importantly how it affects the business which is already faltering? I believe that is a wonderful example of "The Trickle -Down Effect"
The funny thing is that I came up with a great idea that actually bought us another day of time on that deadline and we got two things published instead of one and they still couldn't get their shit together on time. Do they care? Nope. Who looks bad when the deadline is missed whether it is her fault or not? Ah, yea...]
...Finally at 11:31am, you get the final version, it looks good and you send it along to be published claiming email probems for the delay. Pet Peeve #275: lying to save your reputation when it wasn't your fault. Then you tuck that away and remember not to use that excuse next time everyone F's you over on your deadline.
posted by C.C. @ 11:15 AM
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There's always the circus.....
Then you have the "Pass the buck" Fucks.The Sales Department's responsibility is to be the first contact to customers, but now they want to push it off on Marketing. And they try to do it in a meeting in front of other managers. Little did they know that I would publicly say back in the meeting that Sales is first wave of contact and marketing would follow up with promotions and surveys etc. No wonder the comany is sinking! Sales doesn't know how to do their job!!!
Believe me, they don't want me talking to customers. I am less of a company girl now than I was 6 months ago and I wasn't one then either!
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