The "Org" Chart
Howdy All,
Okay, for those of ya'll that don't recognize the topic of this discussion based on the title, well, you aren't in the corporate world so I will explain. The Organizational "Org" Chart is a hierarchy of management and staff used in the corporate environment at all levels to provide upper level management and directors an overview of responsibilities and work delegation of their staff and project teams. For those of us at the very bottom of the Org Chart, it is a constant reminder of how many people can make decisions for you and assign work to you every day.
This leads us to the story for the day. I was cordially invited to attend an engineering kick-off meeting up at the main office for a new project. I was informed that I would be the star speaker in regards to schedule development for the pre-planning phase. Now, while you may, at face value, take this as a wonderful compliment from the project manager, allow me to dispel such nonsense by elaborating further. You see, I was informed of this required attendance at 9pm tonight, for which I will need to prepare paperwork and discussion topics between now and 8am when the meeting will begin. In addition, the reason I will be interacting with a mess of engineers and architects is because the project manager is probably not willing, and more than apparently not capable of coordinating this project schedule himself. Something which he is paid much more than me to know.
Don't misunderstand my sour grapes. I need to complain or he will assume I am naive to his intentions, but I will make the most of this opportunity and make myself the star of the meeting, rather than the quiet underling that he really intends me to be at the meeting. If I handle everything correctly, I will make sure that this designers understand that they will report and interact with me on successive planning issues and skip the project middle man.
Perhaps I am being to harsh toward him. He is, in fact, an engineer and was a bit unwittingly cast into the roll of project manager, and therefore a bit out of his element. By why should I cut him slack. He went to school for probably 6 years. Engineers are much smarter than any construction worker, right? That's what I was led to believe.
Oh, well. I hate Org Charts. Have a good weekend ya'll.
-Pooh
Okay, for those of ya'll that don't recognize the topic of this discussion based on the title, well, you aren't in the corporate world so I will explain. The Organizational "Org" Chart is a hierarchy of management and staff used in the corporate environment at all levels to provide upper level management and directors an overview of responsibilities and work delegation of their staff and project teams. For those of us at the very bottom of the Org Chart, it is a constant reminder of how many people can make decisions for you and assign work to you every day.
This leads us to the story for the day. I was cordially invited to attend an engineering kick-off meeting up at the main office for a new project. I was informed that I would be the star speaker in regards to schedule development for the pre-planning phase. Now, while you may, at face value, take this as a wonderful compliment from the project manager, allow me to dispel such nonsense by elaborating further. You see, I was informed of this required attendance at 9pm tonight, for which I will need to prepare paperwork and discussion topics between now and 8am when the meeting will begin. In addition, the reason I will be interacting with a mess of engineers and architects is because the project manager is probably not willing, and more than apparently not capable of coordinating this project schedule himself. Something which he is paid much more than me to know.
Don't misunderstand my sour grapes. I need to complain or he will assume I am naive to his intentions, but I will make the most of this opportunity and make myself the star of the meeting, rather than the quiet underling that he really intends me to be at the meeting. If I handle everything correctly, I will make sure that this designers understand that they will report and interact with me on successive planning issues and skip the project middle man.
Perhaps I am being to harsh toward him. He is, in fact, an engineer and was a bit unwittingly cast into the roll of project manager, and therefore a bit out of his element. By why should I cut him slack. He went to school for probably 6 years. Engineers are much smarter than any construction worker, right? That's what I was led to believe.
Oh, well. I hate Org Charts. Have a good weekend ya'll.
-Pooh
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