So today when I got into work and checked my email, and read that my boss had asked the lead of one of my projects (Ms. Lead) to oversee the work of another project that I thought I was now leading ...
And then found another email from Ms. Lead asking everyone who was providing me with input to provide her with the status of their input so maybe she could give us some ideas of how to move this project along faster...
Let's just say I lost it....
The reason I took on this new work a few weeks ago was two-fold:
I like to do it and not too many of my coworkers do...
I figured I could work on my own a bit...away from my Ms. Lead.
Ms. Lead, god love her, is a wonderful person with a smiling, happy personality. She just manages to micromanage the hell out of every project she takes on....She plans the project to death and then replans everytime something small changes and expects the "workers" on the project to confirm her new plans and let her know the instant things change so that maybe her suggested target "dates" cannot be met.
Well guess what, when the whole project end date moves out by a year, my date is gonna move too....sorry I did not mention that to you.
And yet a third email ....Recently, a vendor delivered 240+ translated documents. Ms. Lead asked for a target delivery date for each of the documents. She asked for confirmation of the dates regularly...all were within a two-week span. These were not small documents - they averaged 200 pages each...All documents were delivered within 5 days of the target date - some early, some up to 5 days late. "Well, why were we late on some documents", Ms. Lead asks. "And how can we prevent this in the future?"
Well, I gave her my idea which was probably not a good idea...but I was in a mood....
Phillipia says...
How about you and the rest of the management team find something to do with your time besides asking us the "workers" to report on the status of our "work" while also explaining exactly how we are doing said "work" so you can report to upper management that you have thought of some ways to improve "worker" efficiencies...
Needless to say my idea was not well received.
So I just put my headphones on and continued working, replying to all status requests with "IAFWOI"
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Oh lord, Phillipia. If Ms. Lead didn't hide her head under a pillow (like I am doing now), then she should have.
*Nervously chews through pillow*
Oh, yeah! I don't know why she didn't like your very helpful suggestion. (I'm thinking what you said is actually better than telling her to take all the documents and stick em where the sun don't shine.)
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