Gathers no boss

[j4]

This morning I had a meeting with the Director in which he confirmed all the things I knew that I wasn't officially supposed to know, and I reassured him that all the information I wasn't officially supposed to know was getting trickled down to me via my line-manager. He also confirmed that the process of change which is currently being implemented will change things, and that until that happens things are unlikely to change.

So that's all okay then.

The problem, though, is that we won't really know how things are going to change until the people we're hiring to tell us what we already know have told us what we already know. (There's also a parallel process involving transferring people from one location on a map to the same location on a map by moving them in a circle that's so small it's nearly indistinguishable from a point, and that might effect some change slightly sooner, but it's hard to tell.) In the meantime, though, it's back to sitting and waiting.

You might not think it from this post, but I really do like this job, most of the time.

Comments

a circle that's so small it's nearly indistinguishable from a point

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'm having flashbacks to complex analysis lectures here.

[daneel-olivaw.livejournal.com]

I suspect (I wasn't in that meeting) that we're now officially allowed to know that my former boss is leaving, although the verbal official announcement (it's still not gone out in writing) followed about a week after the emailed invites to his leaving do. Equally, I suspect that my former team now know (same verbal communication, same meeting) that I no longer work for (or even with) them - although that's even wishy-washier as I haven't had any written confirmation of the transfer, new job title, new salary, new bonus scheme, etc, as yet (T +1 month and counting).

This is all part of the reorganisation that was unofficially announced through the medium of cutting & pasting an Excel spreadsheet in whole into a globbally-emailed Word doc, rather than paste-as-image, and thereby releasing a host of c0nf!dential information contained on the other worksheets - this being the recovery strategy from the unfortunate org-chart-original-left-in-the-photocopier incident, which helpfully informed the department exactly who was in the firing line for redundancy in April.

Scott Adams couldn't do better, I tell you.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Your seekrits are more seekrit than ours! :-}

[gerald_duck]

Is your job script-writing for Yes Minister?

[j4.livejournal.com]

If only. More like providing inspiration for Scott Adams!