The manager has been giving me work with ever shorter deadlines lately. I still finish everything on time, but now I'm starting to feel like he wants me to fail at finishing the work on time.
If I keep working at this pace, I definitely think I won’t be able to stand it and that I will have to try to discuss it with him or quit. Do you have similar problems with deadlines?
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Nexen and Greenfield successes? You have got to be kidding. Biggest fiascos in my 20 year IT career. Ignorant consultants, architects and changing management priorities led to basically nothing useful being accomplished other than adding more complexity to existing functionality with no value added.
Before I left last year, the projects I listed out would get approved by the department manager and as I drew closer to completion with each one, she'd shoot them down or drastically cut down on my time I'd need to complete them.
Not to mention that my team manager would heap projects from other coworkers onto me when I'd get back from vacation. I'd have to do a mad scramble to figure out what the project was and how to go about finishing it within a week or two since it was long neglected by the person it was originally assigned to. It wouldn't come down on the person it was originally assigned to, but it would certainly come down on me to be responsible for it.
I'm beyond glad to be off of that sinking ship. You all have my regards.
I used to have few problems meeting deadlines, but that was before they decreased staff on my team and added extra responsibilities to everyone remaining. I know that some of these so–called deadlines are less important than others, so i only respect the one or two i know are crucial and choose to consider all the others more of a suggestion than a necessity to meet. Maybe I'll get grief for this attitude at some point in the future...G–d, I hope so, enough that they'll let me go so I won't need to quit.
Nexen and Greenfield ARE successes. The fact that we neglected IT for so long that before that is poor management.
The post is wrong. Nexen and Greenfield have been roaring success stories !!! It even cooked my dinner.
Yeah, this is my experience too. The company has under invested in too many areas for too long and is now trying to catch up..and doing so badly.
9 months ago we were asked to list all procedures with manual processes. Every few weeks through different channels we get asked to add a little more detail, detail that could have been added 9 months ago if we were given an additional few days to gather it. Where is the long term plan about what is happening with the gathered info.
My colleague sat through 4 hours of meetings to discuss manual payments. Such a huge area was being covered that the meetings didn't even touch on the manual payment types we see in our team. Still a solution was developed with 1.5per cent of our manual payments now in the pipeline for automation. Way to go.
yeah those of more of us in cdw tech all the time tight deadline don't like it
For me it started about 5 years ago where I didn't have nearly enough time to accomplish crucial things. And for 10 years before that we could get the crucial things done but didn't have time to do anything that we should be doing like long term planning and streamlining processes etc.
The usual statement of work is due yesterday with a limited budget so failure results