Don't Know What You Don't Know
The only thing that ultimately concerns me about my job - is this nagging thought regarding not knowing what I don't know. I often feel like the guys above me running it don't know what they don't know either - and sometimes I wonder when down the road the pyramid will collapse on top of them...the empire crashing down. It really shouldn't bother me - as it won't ultimately affect me, but I don't like feeling like everything isn't being done "appropriately" or "by the books". Not that anyone is stealing or anything like that - just not entirely sure we're doing everything we should be doing.
They fired someone recently and of the few people brought in to assess their capability of performing *my* current job - two left utterly bewildered - one (the younger one) openly admitting, "I think I can say rather definitely I can't do what you're doing."
We have another newer guy - with whom I've sat a few times and gone over some aspects of what I do. He seemed nearly as bewildered and I think he may be ready to jump out the window and run too. He's been doing other things than what I do - but we were hoping to have at least ONE other person really understand what I do, should the occasion arise that we'd ever need them to help out.
It's more than just an overwhelming workload, it's supervision (or lack thereof), leadership (or lack thereof), clarity of job tasks (or lack thereof)...I'm sure that's enough to paint the picture.
I keep pondering what *I* can do to make this all more efficient, clean and easier...it's all rather difficult, however - as I just don't know what I don't know. *laugh*
I do know, however, that this morning...I'm considering making a bargain with the office devils - some sort of commitment if it will ultimately be mutually beneficial...because the more and more I think about things - I VERY desperately want to get my ass out of the debt I'm in - and I'm just not sure how else to do it. It's not something that 4 massages a week will plow me through anytime soon. And it would make a HUGE impact on my life if I could rid myself of that paycheck eating bill monster - paying out $350-$400/month just for credit card debt...and that doesn't include my student loans from college and massage school.
So I may suck it up and try to look at this as an opportunity to take a bad situation and do my part in making this groups processing actually function well. T'would be a monumental task, for sure.
They fired someone recently and of the few people brought in to assess their capability of performing *my* current job - two left utterly bewildered - one (the younger one) openly admitting, "I think I can say rather definitely I can't do what you're doing."
We have another newer guy - with whom I've sat a few times and gone over some aspects of what I do. He seemed nearly as bewildered and I think he may be ready to jump out the window and run too. He's been doing other things than what I do - but we were hoping to have at least ONE other person really understand what I do, should the occasion arise that we'd ever need them to help out.
It's more than just an overwhelming workload, it's supervision (or lack thereof), leadership (or lack thereof), clarity of job tasks (or lack thereof)...I'm sure that's enough to paint the picture.
I keep pondering what *I* can do to make this all more efficient, clean and easier...it's all rather difficult, however - as I just don't know what I don't know. *laugh*
I do know, however, that this morning...I'm considering making a bargain with the office devils - some sort of commitment if it will ultimately be mutually beneficial...because the more and more I think about things - I VERY desperately want to get my ass out of the debt I'm in - and I'm just not sure how else to do it. It's not something that 4 massages a week will plow me through anytime soon. And it would make a HUGE impact on my life if I could rid myself of that paycheck eating bill monster - paying out $350-$400/month just for credit card debt...and that doesn't include my student loans from college and massage school.
So I may suck it up and try to look at this as an opportunity to take a bad situation and do my part in making this groups processing actually function well. T'would be a monumental task, for sure.