measi's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Giving everything... for what? Like everywhere else in the U.S.A., the economy is weighing heavily on my company. Lots of cost-cutting, lots of stress that this year isn't going to be a banner year, not only because of the national economy and the reflective fallout to school budgets to buy new books, but because large states like Texas and California aren't up for the big purchases this year. But it's awfully hard to believe a lot of the strain when there are so many shifts in positions-- all in higher-level positions, and lots of "secrecy" keeping those of us in the trenches (aka Trenchers) in the dark. It's made a huge impact on the morale in this office. Everyone is miserable because they're being pushed so hard, while the higher-ups take their sweet-ass time with getting things approved, forcing the Trenchers to fall further behind. Things are getting pretty depressing. And I walk into Linda's office today to do my usual check-in, and find her in a whirl of sorrow and stress. To the point that she broke into tears in front of me -- apologizing the entire time, although I kept telling her that it was just fine, and that I can completely understand why. Apparently, new Bigger Boss told her that she's not giving enough time to the job, and how she's not going to meetings (even though she is, because I'm constantly having to run in to drop things off FOR her at meetings). Bigger Boss is telling her about her own 16 hour days, trying to imply that Linda should be working longer hours. But how can she? Linda has an eight and a three year old. The three year old is in daycare-- an environment that's not exactly happy about parents who don't stick to a nine to five schedule. And ironically, we received an announcement that our company made the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" list for the third year. For what? And apparently new Bigger Boss is apparently doing some "adjustments" in the department, without consulting the site managers-- or letting the departments know about it, for that matter. She's been up here a total of three days since she moved into the position. None of which she's spent actually going around the department to see what's going on here, or to see our workload-- which apparently makes her own office's workload seem dwarfed in comparison. It's making things even more frustrating. And quite frankly, I don't think that the company's expecting the fallout that's going to start happening if they don't knock this crap off. I might very well be on that fallout list... 2:59 p.m. - 27 September 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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