Grrrrr - work
Well, war broke out on monday and I'm mopping up today. What a roller coaster this week has been. The second I get all my goals for the day finished I am getting the heck out of here! Last week it looked like this would be a quiet week filled with immersing myself in the aspects of the job that I really enjoy and I was very much looking forward to it. Unfortunately on monday I made a finding while I was reviewing a document that brought to light an issue that cause widespread pandemonium and a 2 week slip in the schedule.
What really gets me is that I and several members of my group had previously pointed out this particular risk and despite all our discussions and efforts to head of the situation, another particular group still managed to grab failure from the jaws of success. We work with this group and have to partner with them on various aspects of the project. I hate it because I feel like their babysitter. Honest-to-god you couldn't do this stuff maliciously because it would take incredible amounts of work and planning to time things just right to cause maximum schedule damage at the very moment we are about to make a delivery to our key customer. I am usually very calm, apolitical and solution-oriented when glitches occur - I drive towards the best possible resolution and let the managers play the blame-game, but this time I am just p*ssed.
I am so glad it's Friday.
What really gets me is that I and several members of my group had previously pointed out this particular risk and despite all our discussions and efforts to head of the situation, another particular group still managed to grab failure from the jaws of success. We work with this group and have to partner with them on various aspects of the project. I hate it because I feel like their babysitter. Honest-to-god you couldn't do this stuff maliciously because it would take incredible amounts of work and planning to time things just right to cause maximum schedule damage at the very moment we are about to make a delivery to our key customer. I am usually very calm, apolitical and solution-oriented when glitches occur - I drive towards the best possible resolution and let the managers play the blame-game, but this time I am just p*ssed.
I am so glad it's Friday.