Thursday
The instrument I came to fix did not get fixed. Sent an email to my manager and my manager say instead of coming home, you stay and fix it… as long as that is alright with you. Now what do you say to that? I’m sorry I miss home so I don’t think I want to stay. Um yeah right… In my mind I’m thinking are you really giving me a choice… there should be no choice there should be his decision and only his decision. Now I’m not ranting about this because I don’t like my manager (don’t get me wrong I could say a thing or two about him, but in the grand scheme of things he leaves me alone and I have no major complaints) what I am complaining about is the overall indecision of the management at my company!
I know they say all companies have their good and bad aspects. Well at work you get to be a manager (or any level above) without having to make any decisions! HOW THE HELL DOES THAT WORK?!? HELLO, YOU ARE IN THAT POSITION SO YOU CAN MAKE DECISIONS (right or wrong). This goes far beyond this incident… More and more recently the growing trend is to not make a decision and hope the problem or question goes away. Here is the problem with that philosophy: the thing/person you are running away from is not going to go away… it is only going to get worse! And I know some people will fight me and say not making a decision is making a decision; I am here to tell you that is a lie. By someone above you not making a decision, you get stuck making decisions that are really not yours to make… or people think you are over stepping your bounds when answering questions that were posed to management WEEKS AGO! Also why is no one proactive? Why must we always be reactive? If we did things proactively we may make some money instead of break even or lose money. I thought the point of being in business was to make money. It is counterproductive to argue over whose right or wrong… sometimes even when you aren’t to blame you need to suck it up and take the blame.
OK… I feel better… enough of that negative… on to the positive.
So again I didn’t get the instrument fixed… but it could be worse. I am suck on a Caribbean Island; the sun is shining and the weather is warm. The food is ok and the people are nice. They only hope I have is NOT to be stuck in my hotel room over the weekend as it is near NOTHING… I could walk to the corner store if I had to but I would really like to do some site seeing. The outside of my hotel is beautiful so maybe this afternoon when I get back to the hotel I can sit by the pool and dip my feet in. Hopefully I will be able to update my agenda later!
I know they say all companies have their good and bad aspects. Well at work you get to be a manager (or any level above) without having to make any decisions! HOW THE HELL DOES THAT WORK?!? HELLO, YOU ARE IN THAT POSITION SO YOU CAN MAKE DECISIONS (right or wrong). This goes far beyond this incident… More and more recently the growing trend is to not make a decision and hope the problem or question goes away. Here is the problem with that philosophy: the thing/person you are running away from is not going to go away… it is only going to get worse! And I know some people will fight me and say not making a decision is making a decision; I am here to tell you that is a lie. By someone above you not making a decision, you get stuck making decisions that are really not yours to make… or people think you are over stepping your bounds when answering questions that were posed to management WEEKS AGO! Also why is no one proactive? Why must we always be reactive? If we did things proactively we may make some money instead of break even or lose money. I thought the point of being in business was to make money. It is counterproductive to argue over whose right or wrong… sometimes even when you aren’t to blame you need to suck it up and take the blame.
OK… I feel better… enough of that negative… on to the positive.
So again I didn’t get the instrument fixed… but it could be worse. I am suck on a Caribbean Island; the sun is shining and the weather is warm. The food is ok and the people are nice. They only hope I have is NOT to be stuck in my hotel room over the weekend as it is near NOTHING… I could walk to the corner store if I had to but I would really like to do some site seeing. The outside of my hotel is beautiful so maybe this afternoon when I get back to the hotel I can sit by the pool and dip my feet in. Hopefully I will be able to update my agenda later!