I survived...
Jan. 13th, 2006 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzskiOne of my co-workers came up with a really good metaphor for this week:
"We're trying to construct a road while driving down it at 60mph"
It's a really good way of describing the way we are trying to make up procedures while still keeping up with our workflow.
I also seem to find myself holding two ends of a string and needing to find out who has the middle piece. Company president wants a report - data comes from a database query. I need someone to translate the codes that spit out of the database into real actual things, so I can figure our which of them go into each category in the president's report.
Advice to anyone who has new co-workers: it you want to create a new process, don't send a new employee to explain things. One poor girl who has been here one day longer than me was trying to explain what her boss wanted to me, and neither one of us was really sure what we were talking about. We quickly realized that the 4 of us (we and our two managers) need to sit down in a room and figure out exactly what each manager wants. THEN we two assistants can get together and make it happen. Translation errors are creeping up on us, and my o.O face is getting tired.
"We're trying to construct a road while driving down it at 60mph"
It's a really good way of describing the way we are trying to make up procedures while still keeping up with our workflow.
I also seem to find myself holding two ends of a string and needing to find out who has the middle piece. Company president wants a report - data comes from a database query. I need someone to translate the codes that spit out of the database into real actual things, so I can figure our which of them go into each category in the president's report.
Advice to anyone who has new co-workers: it you want to create a new process, don't send a new employee to explain things. One poor girl who has been here one day longer than me was trying to explain what her boss wanted to me, and neither one of us was really sure what we were talking about. We quickly realized that the 4 of us (we and our two managers) need to sit down in a room and figure out exactly what each manager wants. THEN we two assistants can get together and make it happen. Translation errors are creeping up on us, and my o.O face is getting tired.
