workaday Wednesday
May. 17th, 2023 06:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatMy boss has decreed that "any time" we take time off, we need to meet with them the day before to discuss how our job will be covered while we're out. Being an enormous pest, I immediately reminded them that I have two afternoons off this week, and did they want me to meet with them before each of those? Or just the once? Really, just trying to clarify the new policy!
(Note: It was eventually decided that if I was going to be at work for *part* of the day, it didn't actually require a special separate meeting.)
And okay, I have some thoughts about this. Because conceptually, communication is so great! And yet this policy seems so not great!
Here's the thing: we ALREADY meet as a team three of the five days of the week. PLUS an extra one on one meeting one day a week! (Mine is already on one of the three team meeting days, which is a heck of a thing, but that's a different argument.) It should also be noted that the "team" is only three people (four if you count the boss). Not exactly an overwhelming number to keep track of.
As far as I can tell, there are two likely reasons for this policy:
1. The boss has so many meetings that they don't actually pay attention in most (any?) of them, so when they realize they need to know something, they schedule *another* meeting just for themselves, for just the info they really want. It wastes everyone's time except their own, but hey! Not their own! I'm sure they would argue that based on their rate of pay compared to mine, my time is less valuable than theirs anyway.
2. The boss' boss is telling them to keep us in line, or possibly asking for updates on our projects that boss doesn't know the answers to (::cough:: possibly because they're not paying attention in meetings? A MYSTERY).
ANYWAY it's wild times in the workplace as usual. I'll just be over here banging on my soapbox and standing on my drum.
(Note: It was eventually decided that if I was going to be at work for *part* of the day, it didn't actually require a special separate meeting.)
And okay, I have some thoughts about this. Because conceptually, communication is so great! And yet this policy seems so not great!
Here's the thing: we ALREADY meet as a team three of the five days of the week. PLUS an extra one on one meeting one day a week! (Mine is already on one of the three team meeting days, which is a heck of a thing, but that's a different argument.) It should also be noted that the "team" is only three people (four if you count the boss). Not exactly an overwhelming number to keep track of.
As far as I can tell, there are two likely reasons for this policy:
1. The boss has so many meetings that they don't actually pay attention in most (any?) of them, so when they realize they need to know something, they schedule *another* meeting just for themselves, for just the info they really want. It wastes everyone's time except their own, but hey! Not their own! I'm sure they would argue that based on their rate of pay compared to mine, my time is less valuable than theirs anyway.
2. The boss' boss is telling them to keep us in line, or possibly asking for updates on our projects that boss doesn't know the answers to (::cough:: possibly because they're not paying attention in meetings? A MYSTERY).
ANYWAY it's wild times in the workplace as usual. I'll just be over here banging on my soapbox and standing on my drum.
