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Work Meeting
Dec. 13th, 2007 06:26 pmWe had an office-wide meeting at work today where we learned that over the next eight months we will be putting together a three-year plan. I can't remember the phrase for it. Planning implementation crystal ball for the future or something.
There are going to be six different groups focusing on various aspects of the office such as personnel, diversity, customer service, and technology. Each group will have one bigwig, at least one person from outside the office, and enough of us to add up to five or six people total. These people have already been chosen, but we don't get to know who they/we are until later.
Even if we're not in one of these groups, we still need to contribute and invest ourselves because at the end we need to all be in agreement as one borg, even though we are each unique celebrations of diversity.
Out of the eight months, we will spend one month standing around, two months creating the plan, and five months flinging it at people.
I don't think I'm making a very good bureaucrat.
Sure, it's nice to be nationally recognized, be prepared for a disaster--like bombs going off or someone getting sick or going on vacation--and look fabulous on everybody's resume. But on the other hand, it's starting to feel like a luxury just to be able to do the basic functions of my job without having to beg someone to fix something that used to work. Twenty e-mails later, we're just as good as we were last semester again!
There are going to be six different groups focusing on various aspects of the office such as personnel, diversity, customer service, and technology. Each group will have one bigwig, at least one person from outside the office, and enough of us to add up to five or six people total. These people have already been chosen, but we don't get to know who they/we are until later.
Even if we're not in one of these groups, we still need to contribute and invest ourselves because at the end we need to all be in agreement as one borg, even though we are each unique celebrations of diversity.
Out of the eight months, we will spend one month standing around, two months creating the plan, and five months flinging it at people.
I don't think I'm making a very good bureaucrat.
Sure, it's nice to be nationally recognized, be prepared for a disaster--like bombs going off or someone getting sick or going on vacation--and look fabulous on everybody's resume. But on the other hand, it's starting to feel like a luxury just to be able to do the basic functions of my job without having to beg someone to fix something that used to work. Twenty e-mails later, we're just as good as we were last semester again!