Although we constantly stress the message of teamwork at work - it seems that absolutely no one get's the message here.
I'm so tired of individuals that cannot come to me directly when they need something or have a problem. Instead they go to my boss, who then confronts me with "attitude" before getting the whole story.
For example, I get a "command performance" meeting with five minutes notice - because one manager has complained that I will not facilitate his request. You know how it is - the "good old boys" go to lunch together, the manager pumps up my boss into a rage and when he gets back from lunch - he's going to "make" me fix the problem.
What the manager "forgets" to tell my boss is that I offered him several solutions to his problem. But he wants to take the easy way out and doesn't like my solutions. Because we all know that things absolutely must be done his way. God forbid that a mere woman inform him that he doesn't understand the system and his solution will simply not work.
So my boss calls all parties into the conference room and starts the meeting with slamming his fist on the table and demanding why the request wasn't facilitated. Then I get to explain for the umpteenth time, to all concerned, that limitations in the system will not allow me to facilitate the request. I then offer the solutions that WILL work.
But the manager cannot admit that he's made a mistake - so he keeps pushing the issue. He is responsible for a subsidiary that is merging into the main company. The subsidiary is merging into the company in one year's time. They are on a different platform now. On the old platform, we can do what he wants. Under the new platform, we can't. It's my opinion that knowing that in one year he will have to adopt the new platform - it makes sense to adopt those rules now - so that it will be a smooth transition.
Well the good old boys win - and I'm told to let it go - he'll cross that bridge when he get's to it in one year. Great. Brilliant isn't it. Now there will be no continuity of information and he will still have to change to my way after one year - all because of ego. Guess what? In one year he will be spouting my solutions and taking credit for it - but by then it will be his solutions.
Don't you just love "teamwork"?
I'm so tired of individuals that cannot come to me directly when they need something or have a problem. Instead they go to my boss, who then confronts me with "attitude" before getting the whole story.
For example, I get a "command performance" meeting with five minutes notice - because one manager has complained that I will not facilitate his request. You know how it is - the "good old boys" go to lunch together, the manager pumps up my boss into a rage and when he gets back from lunch - he's going to "make" me fix the problem.
What the manager "forgets" to tell my boss is that I offered him several solutions to his problem. But he wants to take the easy way out and doesn't like my solutions. Because we all know that things absolutely must be done his way. God forbid that a mere woman inform him that he doesn't understand the system and his solution will simply not work.
So my boss calls all parties into the conference room and starts the meeting with slamming his fist on the table and demanding why the request wasn't facilitated. Then I get to explain for the umpteenth time, to all concerned, that limitations in the system will not allow me to facilitate the request. I then offer the solutions that WILL work.
But the manager cannot admit that he's made a mistake - so he keeps pushing the issue. He is responsible for a subsidiary that is merging into the main company. The subsidiary is merging into the company in one year's time. They are on a different platform now. On the old platform, we can do what he wants. Under the new platform, we can't. It's my opinion that knowing that in one year he will have to adopt the new platform - it makes sense to adopt those rules now - so that it will be a smooth transition.
Well the good old boys win - and I'm told to let it go - he'll cross that bridge when he get's to it in one year. Great. Brilliant isn't it. Now there will be no continuity of information and he will still have to change to my way after one year - all because of ego. Guess what? In one year he will be spouting my solutions and taking credit for it - but by then it will be his solutions.
Don't you just love "teamwork"?
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A nun huh? One Halloween I dressed as a perverted priest, with combover and all, my girlfriend at the time was a 'sexy' nun....It could work. A lunatic hehehe