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Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord
From the desk of the Department of Efficiently Removing Departmental Redundancies Department:
My coworker has now been effectively told that he isn't allowed to do...his job. (He does server administration, etc).
For him to do, pretty much anything, he has to submit change control requests. Which are reviewed by a group that only meets once a week. He also has to submit paperwork to every group that any change he makes would affect, who also have to sign off on it. He has previously been told in no uncertain terms that he is not to do shit until he has approval from these Lords and Masters.
So he's trying to get moving on stuff he's been sitting on forever, and he figures he'll get a head start on the paperwork, since it's been proven lately how long getting approval for ANYTHING takes. His boss responds, and tells him...because the other teams who have to do work on this are not ready, to not bother submitting the paperwork yet.
So he now has to wait on other groups to get their act together and submit paperwork, get THEIR stuff approved, AND wait for them to actually do work... to allow him to submit paperwork, to allow him the CHANCE to do any work whatsoever (because bear in mind, the tradition of this company is to deny ANYTHING that has an error in their byzantine paperwork).
I might add, from a working standpoint, nothing any other team needs to do has any bearing on him getting his shit done. It's strictly a bureaucratic problem, not a technical one.
I really have no idea how this company functions.
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Sounds like the efficiency experts were brought in! Sadly I'm not kidding. They brought them into my company. Apparently guaranteed upper management "15% more efficiency" or some BS.
Now I have to bookkeep my time in two independent places and write down "barriers" to doing my job. I figure I spend 30 minutes a day "billable" time doing that, so it makes me less efficient...
I probably wouldn't mind so much of it seemed like anybody was looking at the identified barriers and DOING something about it. But that'd be too much to ask.
The company that came was called DB&A. We call them "Douhebag Associates." What a joke.
/tk