Inefficiency at work

Rule when when pitching an idea to a superior.

In their mind, if it is such a good idea, THEY would have thought of it.
 
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scott-atkinson said:
Starbucks particularly was a bad example as their business until recent years was pretty much entirely run using Excel!!

I am now a senior manager with a large UK retailer, I am waiting patiently for my prmotion to Director and the accompanying degradation of my brain cells to eliminate all sense of modern technology!!
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LOL :D Fantastic
 
Lets not forget people, that IT make SNAFU's as well. A Classic with our company was with the mail server going down. So we all had to log out until the backup was completed. Then we would be notified to log back in. Several hours later a call was put in to "Help Desk" to see how they were getting one and a ETA for getting back in.


"O, it was fixed two hours ago. We sent an Email out to all users notifying them that they could log back in." :)
 
thats a good thing about us IT boys.. once the problem is fixed we dont giv a crap about anyone! :)
 
Lister said:
Lets not forget people, that IT make SNAFU's as well. A Classic with our company was with the mail server going down. So we all had to log out until the backup was completed. Then we would be notified to log back in. Several hours later a call was put in to "Help Desk" to see how they were getting one and a ETA for getting back in.


"O, it was fixed two hours ago. We sent an Email out to all users notifying them that they could log back in." :)
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Reminds me of an episode of Cheers when they got a big screen TV. The installation instructions were on a video tape.
The regulars were making book on how long it would take the person installing it to realize they couldn't view the tape until the TV was installed.
 
I just read this thread and it looks like everyone is on the wrong end of the stick.:eek:

Start your own business, learn how to sell....nothing happens until a sale is made. If these managers above you are such fuckwits, then it should not be too hard to overtake them......or do your own business.

If you are all shit hot on the data base......then sell what you do.....
 
Chill out Mike.

I just got a call the other day from a company that wants to fly me out to Montana. The guy said that the company just lost someone that had been there for a couple years. The guy learned the business, then went off on his own and started doing business that way. He said, "if you like it, fine, if not, that's fine too, if you do and you decide to go off on your own like he did, oh well, no hard feelings".

I don't know what to think of that....Hmmm...
 
ajetrumpet said:
I'd like to address something here. Does anybody else have trouble calming stupid people down at work?
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I have problems calming stupid people down in this forum while I'm at work - Does that count - :)
 
KenHigg said:
I have problems calming stupid people down in this forum while I'm at work - Does that count - :)
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Nope, it doesn't! Why the hell are you messing around on a forum if you're supposed to be doing work at work? Huh? Now that's a question! :)
 
ajetrumpet said:
Nope, it doesn't! Why the hell are you messing around on a forum if you're supposed to be doing work at work? Huh? Now that's a question! :)
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I thought we were discussing the topic of inefficiency at work.
Now that's a reason ! :cool:
 
I've been away for a while because I actually HAVE been working. We are migrating a bunch of servers to a new server farm. (Right next to the funny farm, I'm beginning to think...). A couple of days ago I discovered that I was a heretic.

I was working through a problem with my DBA and my network engineer. We were humming along, getting things done, exchanging e-mails. About that time, our micro-brain micro-manager called a meeting because all these e-mails concerned him.

Seems that we aren't allowed to make progress in a project without a government manager blessing it.

Which means that, like the participants of the Albigensian heresy, I'm currently apostate.

Can't talk to God without a priest. Can't make progress without a manager to slow you down.

DAMN I hate this place sometimes.
 
The_Doc_Man said:
Folks INVARIABLY want to make life tougher than it already its. I haven't figured out why, but they do. And U.S. Government offices are certainly not immune to that failing.
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No, they're not. As a matter of fact, I would probably consider them to be the source of this very dangerous problem. :rolleyes:
 
A co-worker of mine has just got out of a 4hr meeting that was call because there is a trend down in their time utilization. So the manager has just made ever person in that department click up 4hrs to "ADMIN" for a meeting about the over use of "ADMIN", hence the lack of chargeable time.

What is he thinking?
 
He's thinking the same way every other scared pussy cat in this world is: Minute by Minute

Talk about pathetic? Great example there...
 
One of my ex-managers was asked to provide a forecast for the time needed on each area, during the coming week. Genuine conversation with one of the developers:
"How long will it take to do X?"
"I don't know, I've never used this software or the application before."
"Pretend you do, how long do think it'll take?"
[Looking confused]"40 hours?"
[Writing it down]"Great, thanks."

This is the same guy who used to get everyone to stop working on Friday mornings so that he could get us all to go from the same small area of the office into a meeting room and tell us that there was no need for a meeting. He wouldn't tell us 'officially' while we were at our desks, as it would have been 'cheating' (his word).
 
Alc said:
Genuine conversation with one of the developers:
"How long will it take to do X?"
"I don't know, I've never used this software or the application before."
"Pretend you do, how long do think it'll take?"
[Looking confused]"40 hours?"
[Writing it down]"Great, thanks."
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That SO reminds me of the last gig I did as a controller for a small firm. The store manager came up to me one day and wanted a % change in sales - per customer - for the previous 3 years. He wanted it out of Quickbooks and into another program. He asked me just that: How long will it take? :rolleyes:

Good thing it was a small firm too, or I would have gotten my a** chewed for my estimation. I was 20 minutes off! :p
 
I remember when I was working for a major UK computer firm 2 people argung for three hours on whether a piece of work would take 30 minutes or 2 hours.
 
I was called in on a consult.
The database was on a server with no security.
A couple of employees who thought they knew Access had been making changes and of course they messed it up.
"How long will it take to fix it" asked the Manager.
"I don't know" came my reply.
"Why don't you know?"
"Because I just walked in the door, I haven't even looked at it yet".
"I have to know how long it's going to take, give me an estimate"
"About one-third longer than it took to mess it up".
 
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