[#]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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