{"id":46454,"date":"2019-01-14T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46454"},"modified":"2020-08-10T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:06:22","slug":"i-try-to-not-talk-about-work-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46454","title":{"rendered":"I try to not talk about work too much"},"content":{"rendered":"

But I\u2019m fairly sure that I\u2019m about to embark on the roughest patch of my professional career as of today.\u00a0 For how long?\u00a0 That has yet to be determined, but if the past year has been any indication, it\u2019s probably not going to end as soon as I\u2019d hope it would.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funny thing is that back in November, I almost drafted a post about how it felt like I was doing less work but making more money after my promotion in September.\u00a0 How I didn\u2019t really feel like I felt like I knew what I was doing in my new managerial role, and that I felt a little bit of labor guilt on how I was doing actual less labor, but going to more meetings, and delegating tasks, but I was in fact, making more money in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

But almost as if channeling Murphy\u2019s Law, as quick as I began having these thoughts, things began changing very fast, and a long-looming black cloud over my career had begun pouring its initial drops of rain onto the landscape, and a few weeks later, here I am, feeling like I\u2019m about to be starting the roughest patch of my professional career.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, I\u2019m not going to go too in-depth with the context of everything, because one, nobody really cares at the end of the day, and two, work is one of those topics that I try to be deliberately vague and keep some things private if possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

But long story short, since I\u2019ve found that this situation is often times best described and explained through analogies: my entire team of graphic designers, copyrighters and coordinators have been mandated to change to this new suite of internally-made software, despite the fact that our current existing process is a perfectly well-oiled machine and has warranted the slightest need for change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except all of the software is garbage; hastily-made, constantly being updated and tinkered with while trying to be test driven at the same time, making it nearly impossible to really beta test.\u00a0 Furthermore, the entire project is being helmed by an IT guy, who unfortunately sits at a higher paygrade than I do, and subsequently has the pull to force this onto us, without anyone really knowing why an IT guy has any say on how a creative department operates on a day-to-day basis.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Getting back to the analogy, it\u2019s like everyone on my team showed up to work in their cars, but then the IT manager shows up, presents everyone with bicycles, tells them that this is now your primary mode of transportation, and then drives off in his own car.\u00a0 It\u2019s like everyone on my team is working in the Adobe Creative Suite and then being told that Microsoft Office is now the norm.\u00a0 It\u2019s like being basketball players, and then showing up for practice and then the equipment guy rolls in and dumps a sack full of footballs on the gym floor and tells everyone to get to work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Basically, my entire department is being sandbagged and being expected to perform as normal, when it\u2019s pretty much going to be impossible.\u00a0 I fully predict this is going to accelerate employee turnover, and that I am going to lose some designers, and I\u2019d be lying if I didn\u2019t say that I haven\u2019t been thinking about potential exit strategies myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Words can\u2019t really convey the sheer amounts of frustration I have over this whole situation.\u00a0 I\u2019m aghast over the people who are making this happen, and as cynical as I tend to write, I really don\u2019t like to throw around the phrase that I hate people on individual levels, but I\u2019m 90% sure that I hate the guy in charge of all of this.\u00a0 I already know that I wouldn\u2019t piss on this person if they were on fire, and if modern society weren\u2019t so full of pussies that cry assault at the littlest physical interactions, and I\u2019d get my ass arrested and\/or deported, I\u2019d probably punch this guy square in the face at some point.<\/span><\/p>\n

All I really know is that starting today embarks the deployment of some shit that I\u2019ve been dreading for months.\u00a0 Playing nice, logic, and a laundry list of red flags have completely failed to derail this bullshit from taking off, because when the day is over, the decision to go forward with this were entirely above my paygrade, and the selfish convictions of a fucking asshole have triumphed over the holistic health and careers of many people on my team.<\/span><\/p>\n

I could say that the failure rate of this project is embarrassingly high, and that the guy in charge of this should have his ass fired if and when it does fail, but I\u2019m also in corporate America \u2013 who\u2019s to say that when the Titanic sinks, the captain is the only one who\u2019s going to die?\u00a0 No, I think there\u2019s equally a chance that everyone on the ship sinks with him, and as I stated before, I\u2019m not blind to the notion that it would be best suited if I had an exit strategy somewhere in my back pocket.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But I\u2019m fairly sure that I\u2019m about to embark on the roughest patch of my professional career as of today.\u00a0 For how long?\u00a0 That has yet to be determined, but if the past year has been any indication, it\u2019s probably not going to end as soon as I\u2019d hope it would. The funny thing is … Continue reading I try to not talk about work too much<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,45,37,49],"class_list":["post-46454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-fail","tag-job","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46455,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46454\/revisions\/46455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}