Is your work place run well?

anniehoo

Arrrgh...have just come out of yet another unproductive meeting. Where i work is just gone to the dogs. The ones who are managers arent managing, senior people are taking the p*ss and cant make a decision to save their lives...the place is a mess! Im on a fairly lower rank than them but could do their jobs standing on my head! Anyone else frustrated by how their work place is run??:(:confused::(

RedXIV

Nope, i'm trying to cover for my boss this week and i've nothing but respect for her now, i've no idea how she does her job. Will buy her a medal when she comes back.

Ruu_Old

Yes, one of the best run organisations I have come across (library). All the managers are always out helping the ground floor staff and not in their offices on the blower all the time which is great. It is a department of the city so I'd expect it.

dee8839

I work for legal in-house and I swear, someone one of these days is going to accidentally sign the entire company over because they think they're signing an autograph. PAY ATTENTION boss!!

PurpleBerry

Is your company well run

:D:D:D:D

Cheers! That was the best laugh I've had in a while.

GrumPy

Nope. I do more work then most of the people I work with and I am a part timer.

anniehoo

GrumPy wrote: »

Nope. I do more work then most of the people I work with and I am a part timer.

Yep..i understand! Have talked about "the guy beside me" somewhere on AH before but today was the epitomy of pee taking. He arrived in the door at 11.35am, has been uploading his photos to picassa since then and took an hour and a half lunch with his girlfriend whos the secretary around the corner! Hes a "senior" by the way!

*aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhghgggghhhhhh..ok feel a bit better now*

PurpleBerry

Anyone else want to complain about being run off their feet in their office on an Internet forum?

What's your average day like?

• Send important e-mail
• Set up meeting with VP
• Log into Boards to answer a couple of questions in After Hours
• Fax this document over to Head Office
• Check out how much work other people in the office are doing so that I can go back onto Boards to moan about how much work I do and how little everyone else does
• Go back onto Boards to moan about...

Sean7

Is anything ever really run well?

CountingCrows

Sean7 wrote: »

Is anything ever really run well?

FAI?

anniehoo

Ive spent since 8am this morning preparing for the meeting that was a waste of time, took a few breaks and yeh posted on AH a couple of times ..total time probably 20mins not actually working..how wouldnt you notice the person beside you doing no work for the whole day..well for the bit of the day they came in for? Granted am on the net moaning about it..but i have actually been a bit more productive than alot of other people in here!

PurpleBerry

Nevermind me, I'm just being a smart ass.:D

Cuddlesworth

Depends, its hard to manage people when they themselves are incapable of working. Although I think I'm quite lucky in that I can work independent to my colleagues and boss.

BaconZombie

Well, my Lotus notes account has been disabled and my new Exchange account has not been activated yet....

Great work Microsoft.....

Nightwish

I work for the HSE...so no.

arseagon

Of course it is, I run it. I'm a mean boss too..... If I only had staff.

redarmy

not really .closed down 2day:(

Joe Cool

No, not at all.
Its amazing we get by at all.

Archeron

Well, I work at home, and so far today, the kettle shorted out the whole bloody house, a can of guinness exploded in my conservatory in the heat, and the fooking dogs have just ripped my two best work shirts off the line and eaten them.

I'd say there is definitely room for improvement in my workplace right now.

Tula

Must say I've nothing but respect for my bosses. Its my fellow collegues I've a problem with. I seem to be the only one who gets up off my ass and keeps things moving!

xOxSinéadxOx

GrumPy wrote: »

Nope. I do more work then most of the people I work with and I am a part timer.

me too :mad:

Plug

Our place is well run. Thank god!
alot of apprentises are getting let go but not me, im lucky.
Down to good rep I suppose.

elmolesto

Of course, I run it:D

mental07

There's certainly a few things that could do with being shaken up. Office manager plans on having a meeting about things that could be shaken up. So I guess I'm not too badly off!

thelordofcheese

anniehoo wrote: »

Im on a fairly lower rank than them but could do their jobs standing on my head!

No you couldn't.

Caoimhín

No. My place is badly run.

And i run it.

Tha Gopher

It used to be an utter joke. Shocking, I was honestly considering writing a book at one point I sh1t you not.


Still room for improvement but it isnt quite as bad. But there are some severely retarded people who get paid more than I do to do absoloutely fcuk all. Women and gay men seem to be more likely to get promoted than lads who destroy their targets and have exemplary attendance but hey, what can you do.

Well, alot actually. I work to rule these days seeing as you get FA reward for breaking your balls.

kowloon

A place I worked in set up a meetings taskforce to address the huge amount of meetings being held and their disproportional chunk of managements workload for no gain. After quite a few meetings by the taskforce no solution was found and the taskforce was abandoned as many of the managers involved had important meetings to attend. A true story.

Same company also made a bunch of managers redundant as the company is ridiculously top heavy but than management couldn't cope so they hired new managers. Among the new hires were some of the managers who had just been made redundant. They got to keep their redundancy money and got a hiring bonus :pac:.

Lots of stories but I'll end with my absolute favorite, and probably the cheapest of their stupid ideas. They installed a giant plasma screen on a corridor and the only thing it displayed, for months, was a message telling you who to ring if the screen wasn't working. Reminds me of that signpost that stated: If this sign is submerged the road is flooded

L1011

Nightwish wrote: »

I work for the HSE...so no.

I work for one of your suppliers - all I can say is we're better run than the HSE, and thats about it!

Earthhorse

kowloon wrote: »

A place I worked in set up a meetings taskforce to address the huge amount of meetings being held and their disproportional chunk of managements workload for no gain. After quite a few meetings by the taskforce no solution was found and the taskforce was abandoned as many of the managers involved had important meetings to attend. A true story.

Those are some great stories. It's like a Dilbert cartoon. We regularly have meetings with no agendas and where no minutes are taken. Productive stuff.

A few years ago our company went through redundancies. Certain sections were told they'd have to let people go. So one department offered someone from another department a position then fired him. When the original department found out they rehired him. It's funny in the abstract but an incredibly cruel thing to do to someone just because you don't want to let any of your own staff go. We're talking about someone's livelihood here.

kowloon

Earthhorse wrote: »

Those are some great stories. It's like a Dilbert cartoon. We regularly have meetings with no agendas and where no minutes are taken. Productive stuff.

When I first told people about the place I was shocked, not only that people believed me, but that so many people had similar stories from their own experience, it's all a bit mad, so many people get so little done!

barnacle

Don't even get the barnacle started.

The barnacles place of work is run by nazi's. The manager isn't allowed to make any managing situations anymore. The place is in severe breach of health and safety rules. We don't get breaks, no matter how long we work, and we still get docked half an hour for a break every day. The barnacle has been working there for three years. He worked in another department for 1 1/2 years, then switched to another, and helped sort out problems in the new part, and decided to stay as the place was well run, and as they say, a well oiled ship.. neway 6 months ago, the barnacles old dept closed down. Managers from there still need their hours, so they came over to my place, thinking they know everything, decided that the manager was still the manager but he couldnt make any decisions about anything. As a result of them being there everyone elses hours got cut. Including the barnacles.

Even though I have been there 3 years, noone can/will explain to me how the holiday pay works.

Someday the barnacle will speak up. After reading up on all the laws/acts the place is in breach of. Then sheet will go down.

As it is I've stopped doing extra hours/swapping shifts.

bealbocht

kowloon wrote: »

A place I worked in set up a meetings taskforce to address the huge amount of meetings being held and their disproportional chunk of managements workload for no gain. After quite a few meetings by the taskforce no solution was found and the taskforce was abandoned as many of the managers involved had important meetings to attend. A true story.

Same company also made a bunch of managers redundant as the company is ridiculously top heavy but than management couldn't cope so they hired new managers. Among the new hires were some of the managers who had just been made redundant. They got to keep their redundancy money and got a hiring bonus :pac:.

Lots of stories but I'll end with my absolute favorite, and probably the cheapest of their stupid ideas. They installed a giant plasma screen on a corridor and the only thing it displayed, for months, was a message telling you who to ring if the screen wasn't working. Reminds me of that signpost that stated: If this sign is submerged the road is flooded

This makes me angry.. only reading Dilbert keeps me sane..
Remember.. " dont step in the management"

LouOB

Couldn't organise themselves out of a paper bag

kowloon

bealbocht wrote: »

This makes me angry.. only reading Dilbert keeps me sane..
Remember.. " dont step in the management"

It's only after working in a corporate environment that you can truly appreciate Office Space for the masterpiece it is .

krd

There is a culture of hiring really stupid people as managers. If someone could only explain the thinking to me.

I've seen so many disasters happen through the most incredible ineptitude. Millions lost through sheer stupidity. And I've seen a lot of little people hurt.


I remember reading an interview with a 3i venture capitalist, a few years back. He said the greatest obstacle to venture capital investment in Ireland was the calibre of management in Ireland.

I've seen incompetence that you wouldn't expect from a thick 12 year old child.

I've seen one dolt take a business from employing over 500 people, to less then 30 in the space of 2 years, purely through his genius. He now gives private driving lessons -- but I've heard he wants to make a comeback.

bills

dont think you will be getting too many positive answers to that question:D.

Too many chiefs in our place, not enough indians.

here.from.day.1

Neesa wrote: »

:D:D:D:D

Cheers! That was the best laugh I've had in a while.

+5

vector

I've had many jobs. In most I saw so many problems, but no one was willing to try and solve them because if it went wrong they would get the blame ("look at this mess"- the implication being of course that the entire mess was somehow your fault), and if it went well it was taken for granted ("well that is your job"), I remember there was an article in the Computers in Business supplement of the Sunday Post (hmmm) a few years ago with statistics on why people buy IBM products in business and not the cheaper brandless alternatives. One of the key reasons was to cover your a$$, so that is a piece of equipment broke the purchaser would not be blamed for it, after all it had a solid brand name. i.e. forget saving money, just cover your own a$$