[#]TalesFromTheHomeOffice - I feel as if I've been yoinked out of the driver's seat of a very fast sports car and stuffed into the rear-facing jump seat of a 1982 station wagon trundling down a single-lane dirt road.
Well, if this team won't let me drive on the highway, hopefully I can find a position with another team that'll let me do more interesting work. I talked to some folks today about that. Fingers crossed.
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@emery Good luck! I hope you find something better than feeling like training wheels were put back on your bike because that's just not fulfilling.
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@madgeface I'm mindboggled at how the people in my new group don't seem to be engaged with the content of the proposals we're producing. Today one of the senior coordinators was showing me how to do a thing for a bid we're working on. I asked if we were the incumbent on the contract and she did not know.
She's the coordinator? for the proposal?? and she doesn't KNOW?!
(The way this team is set up, coordinators are part of the publication process, not the actual proposal process. She doesn't have to know. But she didn't care enough to know, either. That's the proposal manager's job, not hers. Wow.)
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@emery :O I've seldom been on the proposal front lines, but that seems fundamental to knowing who to get the best info from. IDK. That sounds very odd though.
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@madgeface It's a different way of approaching it - the proposal managers are in charge of the content and the compliance; the proposal coordinators are just part of the production team. They don't get involved with the content.
But the part where they see desktop publishers as kind of like "junior coordinators" and we're not allowed to do any editing, only very light proofreading... ouch. If they don't need me to do the formatting that's fine, but taking away my editing too? Bleh.
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@emery Yeah, I'd be feeling a little knee-capped.
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@madgeface My new manager is pushing me towards being a coordinator instead of "only" a desktop publisher.
I'm pushing towards moving out of her group into another where I can be an editor instead, since they don't need me to do their formatting. (She created a master template and the coordinators apparently do the formatting for whatever proposals they're working on. So what even are desktop publishers for, in her group?)
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@emery So good on you for being calm, cool & collected
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@madgeface I'm more than a little angry about it, actually... 😅 this merger, as far as I can tell from the folks I've been talking to, has gone straight past "fiasco" and is well into "trainwreck" territory.
ETA: but that's only as far as it affects the working people at my level. I'm sure for upper management and stockholders, it's fantastic.
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@emery @madgeface Crap, that sucks. I hope you find a way to something better!
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@Archergal @madgeface Thanks! Workin' on it - one of the guys I talked to this morning is going to pitch the idea to his manager of having a dedicated editor for the group. I hope it flies.
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@emery I read down the rest of the convo and GAH. Hope the situation improves before you headdesk into oblivion 🤞🏻
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@mmezabet Thank you!
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@emery ugh. I got knocked around into some crappy roles in corporate reshuffles in past jobs. It was hard, especially because I had so little choice in the matter.
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@bomkatt Bleh :( I think the worst part is that they will tell you, with as much sincerity as they can muster, that they want to provide you with "meaningful and fulfilling work," they ask about your career goals and where you want to be in 5 years, they tell you they're going to help you get there...
...and then they put you in what's basically an admin role, filling out forms and moving files to and from sharepoint sites.
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@emery ouch. And I can relate to that. I officially left the day my manager told me not to bring her new ideas, just to execute what I was told to do.
I stayed there till I landed a new gig and wore a lot of snarky sock for subtle rebellion.
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@bomkatt I do feel a little bad for my new manager - she'd built up a comfy cozy little team for herself, and then had a half-dozen new people airdropped in who are all used to doing WAY more than what she's been told her team is allowed to do and are angry about it.
This would be great if it were a sitcom.
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@emery that would not be a fun position to be in either, especially if they didn’t discuss it much with her in advance
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@bomkatt At this point I'm half-seriously considering writing a lighthearted book about regular-people office workers affected by the merger of two large and bureaucratic corporations. Each chapter will be told from a different person's perspective. The corporations are the "bad guys," of course. And there has to be a cross-company love story arc, right?
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@emery absolutely a set up for enemies-to-lovers arcs.
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@bomkatt As a running joke, the mid-level managers from each company use the same words to describe different things, and different words to describe the same things - so after meetings, half the people walk away thinking they understood everything, and the other half of the people walk away really unsure about it all.
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@emery lolsobs in lived experience
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@bomkatt It could be a bestseller!
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