Posted by Tabitha on July 24, 2003, at 11:53:38
In reply to Re: Distress » Tabitha, posted by Dinah on July 24, 2003, at 10:07:30
I phoned into the 9 am meeting, it was no big thing, just re-iterating responsibilities that I've already been doing. Skipped the 8am one like I've done for the past 2, I've told them they can contact me directly if they need assistance. That one is related to supervising workers in India who work for about 1/3 the going U.S. rate. How motivating to be involved.
Corporate culture sucks, politics sucks. It can ruin what would otherwise be a good job. There have been several people fighting for control of my product for a while. Every time there's a new customer for a new flavor of it, they assign a new boss for that project, and claim the division between my role and theirs is clear, but it never is.
Some products have been cancelled, leaving a whole group without much to do, so two groups are supposed to merge, which means everyone will be fighting for scraps of what's left, but there's been no clear re-organization, so every time a new project starts, I swear half the effort is spent with folks jockeying for position, fighting for dominance.
It's never clear who really gets to make decisions. So much effort goes into just jockeying over who gets to make decisions. I never understand when it's done why certain people get to make decisions and others don't. Sometimes I think, OK, so-and-so is the one who makes decisions in that area, but it's never clear. Then I think it's just force of personality, whoever makes decisions gets to, but I've tried that, just dug in my heels and said I'm going to do it this way, sometimes that works and sometimes people who don't like the decision then just work around me somehow to get what they want. It's maddening.
I can't wait to escape. But... eventually I'll probably have to go back to the same or something similar. I can't find an alternative. Yet.
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