I hope that management get their bottom kicked for not sorting this out themselves
Ach, they (think they) are sorting it out, but they're playing a longer-term game.
I think I'd've done things differently if I'd been in charge, but I don't know what all the other pressures being exerted on them from boards/committees/etc may be, so it's hard to tell whether I'd've been able to -- perhaps I'd be just as frustrated as I am now but with more people blaming me for the situation. :-/
I suspect you would make a far better manager than you think you would.
I think I'd make a reasonable manager, with some training and a lot of practice. I'm not sure I'd enjoy it, though. This is one of the reasons why I got stuck in a hole in the previous job. (I could have had a promotion to team-leader kind of level within ~2 years of starting there, but I didn't want to, because I wanted to do the stuff I was already good at and enjoyed doing. And there was no shortage of managers, but there was a shortage of people who were good at the stuff I was good at.)
Would some books help?
Heh -- ordinarily I would say yes, but we bought 95 books at the weekend, and I have no idea where 95 books' worth of space is going to come from in our house, particularly given that there's going to be exactly one piano's worth less space in said house by the end of tomorrow...
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Ach, they (think they) are sorting it out, but they're playing a longer-term game.
I think I'd've done things differently if I'd been in charge, but I don't know what all the other pressures being exerted on them from boards/committees/etc may be, so it's hard to tell whether I'd've been able to -- perhaps I'd be just as frustrated as I am now but with more people blaming me for the situation. :-/
I suspect you would make a far better manager than you think you would.
I think I'd make a reasonable manager, with some training and a lot of practice. I'm not sure I'd enjoy it, though. This is one of the reasons why I got stuck in a hole in the previous job. (I could have had a promotion to team-leader kind of level within ~2 years of starting there, but I didn't want to, because I wanted to do the stuff I was already good at and enjoyed doing. And there was no shortage of managers, but there was a shortage of people who were good at the stuff I was good at.)
Would some books help?
Heh -- ordinarily I would say yes, but we bought 95 books at the weekend, and I have no idea where 95 books' worth of space is going to come from in our house, particularly given that there's going to be exactly one piano's worth less space in said house by the end of tomorrow...