Frustrations at work…
I feel like I’m running in a hamster wheel at work. I’m running hard, sweating a lot, and burning calories, but not going anywhere. Once a week I have a meeting in which I present everything I have been working on for the previous week. The work I do never seems to be enough and the VP is never happy with the progress or direction of the projects.
For example, I was asked to complete a project which was originally started before I worked here. I started the project, met several times with the people involved, and had the programming completed. I presented the project to the VP in mid-December (the day before I left for Europe). He found about 7 things he wanted fixed or answers to and one programming error. Last week we re-presented the project with all of the fixes in place and the answers to the questions he had. During that meeting he found more things he wanted changed and suggested some major programming changes. It will be another two weeks before that programming is done. It just continues on.
Three weeks ago I presented a new project named 20/20. It will have the system look at orders coming in, when they need to be processed, how long it will take to process the orders, and when they must leave the building. It then assigns priorities to the orders and suggest appointments. Everyone in the meeting was enthusiastic and I was given the “thumbs-up” to start programming. I created mock-up screens for the next meeting. Now the VP doesn’t want to include any of the intelligence behind the screens. He wants the supervisor to see where the order is in the system, but not give the supervisor any view of when the product is coming in or how soon it need to go out. He asked if I had anything else to show him, so I brought-up a screen I had designed in November that he originally shot-down. Now he has approved my original screen from November.
Nothing is getting done.
For example, I was asked to complete a project which was originally started before I worked here. I started the project, met several times with the people involved, and had the programming completed. I presented the project to the VP in mid-December (the day before I left for Europe). He found about 7 things he wanted fixed or answers to and one programming error. Last week we re-presented the project with all of the fixes in place and the answers to the questions he had. During that meeting he found more things he wanted changed and suggested some major programming changes. It will be another two weeks before that programming is done. It just continues on.
Three weeks ago I presented a new project named 20/20. It will have the system look at orders coming in, when they need to be processed, how long it will take to process the orders, and when they must leave the building. It then assigns priorities to the orders and suggest appointments. Everyone in the meeting was enthusiastic and I was given the “thumbs-up” to start programming. I created mock-up screens for the next meeting. Now the VP doesn’t want to include any of the intelligence behind the screens. He wants the supervisor to see where the order is in the system, but not give the supervisor any view of when the product is coming in or how soon it need to go out. He asked if I had anything else to show him, so I brought-up a screen I had designed in November that he originally shot-down. Now he has approved my original screen from November.
Nothing is getting done.
posted by Page at
11:24 AM
4 Comments:
Page, i don't know why you're so upset. I mean, lead times and eta's
aren't at all important. And customers and reps never ever complain if something isn't on time.
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Anonymous, At
11:19 AM
I work in the design world and encounter a lot of people who want changes. You can never be perfect beacuse people like to feel like they are part of the creative process. When I freelanced at a design firm the engineer purposely made obvious errors on the project so that the client could point them out and make changes.
When I work on movie posters sometimes it takes months to get a final poster and sometimes they pick a concept that we showed them originally. Its frustrating and you want to say why didn't you just pick that $50K ago?
But execs, filmmakers, etc just like to feel like they are involved.
Perhaps the next time you show your VP something start off with we incorporated your ideas and this is the result and this is why it will work. It will amek him feel like his ideas/changes made a difference and perhaps he will approve your work.
Or he could just be a jerk. Most times though people just want to be part of something.
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Anonymous, At
12:45 PM
I think the VP like to challenge us. In some ways it's good, because it forces us to be better at what we do. On the other hand, nothing gets done, becuase we adjust the program and he challenges it again. It's a never ending process.
By
Page, At
1:50 PM
Well at least its keeps you challenge. Challenges keep us interested and interesting. Good Luck with your projects!
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Anonymous, At
8:16 AM
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