This is my job today:
Peter Gibbons: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Porter: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it.
I have had no less than four different people ream me out in email today because I missed 8 hours in my time tracking last month. The problem is that I am working on two different teams right now – I got moved to a new one, but I’m still doing work for the old team. Both teams are under the same high level manager. So when I missed those 8 hours, here’s what happened:
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I get an email from the time tracking people saying “Hey, you missed putting in time for April 1. I adjusted it for you, so you are now in compliance. Please don’t forget this next month.”
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An email is sent out to our whole group listing the people who missed time last month – sent by the high-level manager
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I get an IM from my new manager saying “Hey, can you please fix time tracking? The report shows you missing 8 hours.”
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I get an email from my old team lead, which is just the high-level email forwarded on, with the note “Please make sure you don’t miss compliance with time tracking anymore.”
Grr.