still stunned.
Nov. 24th, 2003 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeysome things are very funny.
in a series of fell swoops, my supervisor found a way to have himself, his immediate supervisor and my senior representative all removed from their positions... at the same time. This seemed odd to me, until the fallout from this move got the person that removed him from his slot abruptly fired. it was a queen sacrifice that involved himself and almost his whole chain of command.
you'd think that with a boss like this, i wouldn't be suprised at any sly moves of office politics... but i was.
i was working on a project for him to automate a lot of tedious data-entry tasks that they were making him do. He'd give me the raw data, and i'd write a program in excel to have all the data entry done automatically. i took the data and kept it in a workbook, and made a system that saved him about 8 hours of labor per week, and gives him new reports and charts that he didn't have access to before. it took a while to write, but i worked on it between calls.
My boss was very happy with the result, and kept saying that tehe company was looking for software solutions to a lot of these problems, and that instead he was going to get me put into a full time office developer position, to use the programs they have to their potential... and i kept thinking "yeah right." This is stuff that anyone can do if they take the time to learn... they can't be THIS ignorant of the possibilites of the programs they already HAVE. but this last monday the quality team came to me and said that it was all going to happen. i'll get a new daytime schedule, and no real chain of command, and even two days off in a row, and the best part is: i get to do stuff that i find creative, interesting, and fun. it is too good to be true, and i've held off on making an entry over it for a week, just to see if it solidifies... but today i showed the results of my work to my new interm boss, and she was just amazed at what i'd come up with, she ordered me some programming books i requested, and asked me if i needed a faster PC... So i don't know what to say...
but somehow i still feel that there is another boot to drop in all this, so i'm still cautious.
in a series of fell swoops, my supervisor found a way to have himself, his immediate supervisor and my senior representative all removed from their positions... at the same time. This seemed odd to me, until the fallout from this move got the person that removed him from his slot abruptly fired. it was a queen sacrifice that involved himself and almost his whole chain of command.
you'd think that with a boss like this, i wouldn't be suprised at any sly moves of office politics... but i was.
i was working on a project for him to automate a lot of tedious data-entry tasks that they were making him do. He'd give me the raw data, and i'd write a program in excel to have all the data entry done automatically. i took the data and kept it in a workbook, and made a system that saved him about 8 hours of labor per week, and gives him new reports and charts that he didn't have access to before. it took a while to write, but i worked on it between calls.
My boss was very happy with the result, and kept saying that tehe company was looking for software solutions to a lot of these problems, and that instead he was going to get me put into a full time office developer position, to use the programs they have to their potential... and i kept thinking "yeah right." This is stuff that anyone can do if they take the time to learn... they can't be THIS ignorant of the possibilites of the programs they already HAVE. but this last monday the quality team came to me and said that it was all going to happen. i'll get a new daytime schedule, and no real chain of command, and even two days off in a row, and the best part is: i get to do stuff that i find creative, interesting, and fun. it is too good to be true, and i've held off on making an entry over it for a week, just to see if it solidifies... but today i showed the results of my work to my new interm boss, and she was just amazed at what i'd come up with, she ordered me some programming books i requested, and asked me if i needed a faster PC... So i don't know what to say...
but somehow i still feel that there is another boot to drop in all this, so i'm still cautious.
