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Going Nowhere, Fast
Dec. 7th, 2005 11:55 pmWell, it's cold outside, but not below freezing here, which I can't say for most of the state. Chris called earlier on his drive home in Dallas speaking about all of the ice there. One thing that is good about Houston is that it really rarely freezes.
Still, as most of you know, I'd love to leave town, and would be able to deal with different Texas climates if I didn't have to work in dysfunctional-land.
Yep, the wonderful world of layoffs, egos and lack of vision is really starting to take it's toll on me. Another round of layoffs in many of the other divisions occurred a week ago, and we're still trying to find out who reports where, and how we relate to marketing and what do we do when our special programs go downhill. The IT programmer who built five of the applications my team uses everyday, was canned, leaving upgrades and repairs in his lurch. Calls to our sales division go unanswered because the people aren't there. More friends have left.
Of course, several of them will appear at the Holiday Party, because people are now brining laid off people as their guests.
Still, our division is still suffering from the layoffs that happened two months ago. There's a real problem with leadership when you wiped out so much of it. Right now we're trying to merge together three different areas, but we don't have a roadmap. A month ago Joe, our new, combined department leader brought everyone in for a meeting and told us that we would learn new things and combing resources and be a new team.
Unfortunately, that's all he told us. There was no direction or thought behind that. I think this worry finally was brought up to him, so the direction? He set up seven committees that would make decisions on how to combine the teams, and he set a deadline of December - 2006.
Yep, that's a year away, and the committees have no committee members. Everyone is now jockeying for position, trying to sign up for the teams they want to be on. Of course I, being very well versed, and running a very specialized team, I want to be on all of them. It will never happen. I don't have the time, but boy am I opinionated. In one case, I've already drawn out a small plan of what teams should be combined, and how, and under who, based on their responsibilities. I'm ready to go. I just hope that they are ready for me.
The problem today was that we needed to sync up the various work each group does so we can better manage our workforce and make sure all of our critical work got done today. Of course, everyone told me, "We need to wait until the committees get going, then it will be sorted out." Of course this is the kiss of death.
Seven committees that have no mandate to sync up what they do, that are loosely defined in their scope, and still don't have members. These groups won't be on board for at least a month, with the holidays coming up, so we'll be stuck in this current chaos for a while. Still, the deadline is also too long, so it will be a very leisurely stroll towards integration.
The consolidation looks like it's going to be very painful for a while.
Still, as most of you know, I'd love to leave town, and would be able to deal with different Texas climates if I didn't have to work in dysfunctional-land.
Yep, the wonderful world of layoffs, egos and lack of vision is really starting to take it's toll on me. Another round of layoffs in many of the other divisions occurred a week ago, and we're still trying to find out who reports where, and how we relate to marketing and what do we do when our special programs go downhill. The IT programmer who built five of the applications my team uses everyday, was canned, leaving upgrades and repairs in his lurch. Calls to our sales division go unanswered because the people aren't there. More friends have left.
Of course, several of them will appear at the Holiday Party, because people are now brining laid off people as their guests.
Still, our division is still suffering from the layoffs that happened two months ago. There's a real problem with leadership when you wiped out so much of it. Right now we're trying to merge together three different areas, but we don't have a roadmap. A month ago Joe, our new, combined department leader brought everyone in for a meeting and told us that we would learn new things and combing resources and be a new team.
Unfortunately, that's all he told us. There was no direction or thought behind that. I think this worry finally was brought up to him, so the direction? He set up seven committees that would make decisions on how to combine the teams, and he set a deadline of December - 2006.
Yep, that's a year away, and the committees have no committee members. Everyone is now jockeying for position, trying to sign up for the teams they want to be on. Of course I, being very well versed, and running a very specialized team, I want to be on all of them. It will never happen. I don't have the time, but boy am I opinionated. In one case, I've already drawn out a small plan of what teams should be combined, and how, and under who, based on their responsibilities. I'm ready to go. I just hope that they are ready for me.
The problem today was that we needed to sync up the various work each group does so we can better manage our workforce and make sure all of our critical work got done today. Of course, everyone told me, "We need to wait until the committees get going, then it will be sorted out." Of course this is the kiss of death.
Seven committees that have no mandate to sync up what they do, that are loosely defined in their scope, and still don't have members. These groups won't be on board for at least a month, with the holidays coming up, so we'll be stuck in this current chaos for a while. Still, the deadline is also too long, so it will be a very leisurely stroll towards integration.
The consolidation looks like it's going to be very painful for a while.
