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I'm having a slight panic attack, which, of course, means "write a post." ^__^ I got the information for one of the projects I've been working on today. This is a high profile emergency thing that we're doing extra fast because someone high up in the company wants it. Well, it turns out the data they sent me is wrong and they will have to redo it,
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I fixed the project around 2 today, but they found another problem about a half hour later. By then, everyone in Europe and Asia was gone, and half the people here took off early because it's Friday. I don't know what will happen. My company likes to think that "global is better," but, in reality, it's incredibly frustrating when some manager is having a fit because something needs done immediately and I have to wait for someone in China to wake up and come to work. And it's impossible to schedule conference calls that everyone can attend, so you can almost never get all the people involved in one project on the same page. And, yeah, even state to state is hard. I used to work with a guy in Oregon who would schedule calls at 4 pm Pacific Time. I have stuff to do after work so I could never hang around for that.
It's not that I think global is bad, but this rhetoric that it's "faster and better" is not necessarily true. There are advantages, but there are also disadvantages, and, for some reason, people tend to overlook the disadvantages. They say it's "business around the clock" but, in reality, there are limitations. Unless you have equally talented and trained people (who never get sick or take vacation) in all time zones, you have to accept delays. I get frustrated with the fantasy that we have the world at our fingertips and we can do anything at any time as fast as anyone could desire. I feel like Sales makes promises, based on this lie, and then everyone else suffers, trying to pull off the impossible.
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