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2011-Mar-03, Thursday
i am orange; orange am i
2011-Mar-03, Thursday 07:36 amI've been working twice my usual hours for 3 months now. There's still no job posted for an addition to my team since we lost our supervisor 8 weeks ago. The situation is annoying me. Upper management seems to have developed the opinion that 2.0 FTEs is all we really need, and since I'm providing 1.0 FTEs (instead of 0.5) then they're all set.
Wrong. Even a year ago, I was saying to my old boss that we needed more heads in the department. Basically, I thought that we were each wearing "too many hats". While I was telling her this opinion, I didn't know at the time that upper management had begun forcing her to wear too many additional hats too. That's eventually why she quit. Now some of her "hats" have fallen to us in addition to what we were doing before.
To convince them that we need more than 2.0 FTEs, I gave up on my duties long enough one day to write a Powershell script that pulled statistics from our old email folders. We assign color codes to people as they take responsibility for items that are emailed to us. At least, I'm always up-to-date in coding my emails. I don't think they ever were quite as dedicated to the process. Emails are not a total view of our workload, because server projects usually don't generate emails and people frequently drop by our desks or call us for other issues. It's the closest to a department workload view that we have, though.
I am orange. My old boss is blue. My coworker is green. The other colors are miscellaneous assignments (networking, website, departmental, etc.). My new boss doesn't work assignments, so his contribution is irrelevant. The trend in increased workload over the years is obvious.
I started in the last few days of February 2008. I was surprised to see that I grew to take over more of the assignments than the others even while I was still in part-time status. Data is valuable, since it shows trends in timespans that humans just don't notice. (Science is good for this reason among others.) The totally unequal distribution since my boss left, however, leaves me thinking that there are "too many chiefs", to use an old phrase.
I'm the last oompa-loompa warrior left in my tribe. I started roaming websites last night to job hunt again. I really dislike job hunting, but it's the lesser of two evils at the moment. You have to avoid those vermicious knids wherever you find them.
Wrong. Even a year ago, I was saying to my old boss that we needed more heads in the department. Basically, I thought that we were each wearing "too many hats". While I was telling her this opinion, I didn't know at the time that upper management had begun forcing her to wear too many additional hats too. That's eventually why she quit. Now some of her "hats" have fallen to us in addition to what we were doing before.
To convince them that we need more than 2.0 FTEs, I gave up on my duties long enough one day to write a Powershell script that pulled statistics from our old email folders. We assign color codes to people as they take responsibility for items that are emailed to us. At least, I'm always up-to-date in coding my emails. I don't think they ever were quite as dedicated to the process. Emails are not a total view of our workload, because server projects usually don't generate emails and people frequently drop by our desks or call us for other issues. It's the closest to a department workload view that we have, though.
I am orange. My old boss is blue. My coworker is green. The other colors are miscellaneous assignments (networking, website, departmental, etc.). My new boss doesn't work assignments, so his contribution is irrelevant. The trend in increased workload over the years is obvious.I started in the last few days of February 2008. I was surprised to see that I grew to take over more of the assignments than the others even while I was still in part-time status. Data is valuable, since it shows trends in timespans that humans just don't notice. (Science is good for this reason among others.) The totally unequal distribution since my boss left, however, leaves me thinking that there are "too many chiefs", to use an old phrase.
I'm the last oompa-loompa warrior left in my tribe. I started roaming websites last night to job hunt again. I really dislike job hunting, but it's the lesser of two evils at the moment. You have to avoid those vermicious knids wherever you find them.