BeeR Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I swear half my job now is documenting what I do for my job. Submitting this or that tickets, work requests, work orders, put what you did in this or that spreadsheet....all of it in ridiculously, painstakingly and usually pointless detail.....meetings for the sake of meetings where people talk a lot and don't say a damn thing, blah blah blah Anyone else? (PS no it's not even a gov't job, where I'd expect that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whomper Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 With the drastic shift to imports our company has taken I get buried in a lot of this stuff but it is usually between me and the Retailers or factories I deal with. I have to send these people all kids of documenst and fabric detail sheets for customs purposes. That is a hugh hassle for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted July 16, 2009 Author Share Posted July 16, 2009 At least there's a valid (or seems at least semi-valid) reason. Ours is self-inflicted. Personally I think it's because a lot of middle/upper mgt is trying to justify its existance with a barrage of "metrics." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whomper Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 At least there's a valid (or seems at least semi-valid) reason. Ours is self-inflicted. Personally I think it's because a lot of middle/upper mgt is trying to justify its existance with a barrage of "metrics." I see what you are saying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffraff Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I see what you are saying I don't. Let's set-up a meeting to talk about it. But first, please fill this form out in triplicate and register via our website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefjay Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 One word for you, brutal, just brutal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I don't. Let's set-up a meeting to talk about it. But first, please fill this form out in triplicate and register via our website. and use the FTP site (which has a bunch of restrictions in it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 and use the FTP site (which has a bunch of restrictions in it) I hate FTP sites. We have a bunch of red tape, that we do have primarily is regulatory and cya. I swear if we could get rid of lawyers, OSHA, and the EPA we could cut our paper work in half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I sat down with my direct supervisor. Questions about why I am driving over half the county 3 days a week somehow morphed into a criticism of myself and a friend/coworker getting done too early/not early enough depending on the day. The company has won, I don't give f*ck, am not going to do anything I'm not directly told to do, and am just going to shut up and try to be invisible until I move on in a couple years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 are you documenting the time you spend documenting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ts Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 (edited) In the past ~2 years, I have slowly become convinced that the company I am part of no longer develops products to be used by customers, but rather, is now in the business of generating memos & detailed spreadsheets for internal consumption by employees that only occasionally think about the products that we are supposed to be developing. The gathering of "metrics" seems to have become an end unto itself, where the metrics are now our primary "product". Edited July 17, 2009 by ts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Irish Doggy Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Nothing compares to the bloated bureaucracy known as Sears Holdings. I honestly don't know how Sears/Kmart get the shelves stocked. The left hand doesn't even know the right hand exists. Target and Walmart, nightmares in their own right, are a breeze in comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Irish Doggy Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 The gathering of "metrics" seems to have become an end unto itself, where the metrics are now our primary "product". I think red tape/metrics are the result of two popular business sayings: 1) "That which gets measured gets done." 2) "If it isn't documented, it didn't happen." In my experience, the bigger the firm, the more of both you will have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 I think red tape/metrics are the result of two popular business sayings: 1) "That which gets measured gets done." 2) "If it isn't documented, it didn't happen." In my experience, the bigger the firm, the more of both you will have. I think you guys may have poorly implemented metrics. I think the phrase is "That which gets measured, improves". And I'm trying to implement it at my company. Otherwise you stumble around wasting time and money on the same stuff over and over again without knowing why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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