THE DAILY DIVERSION

Yeah, I know I missed posting yesterday. You wanna make something of it?

I just didn't really have much to discuss. That and I just didn't feel like typing last night.

Anyway, I thought I'd get a little something off my chest. The truth is, I'm really, really tired of my boss. For starters, he won't do what is best for us, as employees.

Several months ago, we had a new senior manager join our team. This gentleman immediately made some drastic changes and not necessarily for the worst. Changes were needed, in a bad way. Our department had lost a lot of credibility throughout the organization and we needed to get that back, and quickly.

While all of us "underlings" were on board, and, at least in my case, excited about being more empowered with our jobs, my direct boss continued to maintain the status quo from the old regime. Truthfully, its not his fault either, as he's never known anything but the way he's been doing things. This is due to the fact that he's never had another job at a different place. The rest of us have all worked elsewhere and brought our experiences with us.

Fast forward to more recent times...

We've been working on a project and our new senior manager told us, at the beginning, to take charge of what we are doing, make intelligent decisions, and move on. If we did that, he would back us 100%. That's the way empowerment is supposed work and really made me feel like I could do my job without all of the bullshit we've had to put up with prior to now. (background info: at my job there has been a serious power struggle throughout the company's history and politics, more often than not, overrule common sense and intelligent business decisions)

Well, my boss doesn't necessarily follow this path. Instead, he's still doing it the old way, where we know what we want to do, then we put it out for discussion with others, let them come back with their opinions, then we go back and forth for a month, before we finally come to a conclusion. The problem with this way is that we were supposed to be done at the end of January. The decisions I made were done by that time, but, until today, we were still in the negotiating process. All the while, my boss has made no effort to go to our senior manager with our findings, so he could back us up, and we could move on.

So, in the end, all of us "underlings" look like we're not doing our job efficiently, because our boss won't do what he's supposed to do. Instead we are stuck sitting on our hands, getting things done at a snail's pace, and having senior management look at in bewilderment (as to say "what is taking so long?"). I can't go say anything to senior management, as my boss makes life really shitty for me. I've been there and done that, but I don't know how much longer I can put up with this idiocy.

Okay, I'm done for now. I'm really not in a bad mood today. I didn't do any work at all today and my Hilltoppers blew out yet another team in Diddle Arena. Also, tomorrow is Valentines Day, with Adrianne's birthday following the day after.