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Ok I'm convinced I'm being pranked on a cosmic level

pstall

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I have vented before about my battles with upper mgt at work. In the Spring they roll out a totally new platform that is worldwide for us to use. After a couple of conference calls I said it aint gonna work.

But because of the buy in from the powers that be and the money already spent, it was basically too big too fail.

So now we are falling further and further behind and everybody has been frustrated etc and clients and sales are hounding us.

So today a nice little bombshell gets dropped on us. They want us to work tomorrow(bank holiday) and a couple of Sat's this month. I was expecting a total revolution, blood in the cubes from my fellow co workers and they all are like, ok. We will do it.

I had to walk away I was shaking I was so mad. NOW we are behind because they did NOT listen to good ole pstall and people who have been working 60 hours a week now have to work even MORE?

They say they understand if we had plans tomorrow but really need us.

I haven't been this livid since the Cardinals playoff game.

But to see everybody roll over and just accept the stupid mantra of it is what is to me is unacceptable.

Somewhere somebody is laughing. wow

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Sharing ideas at a company as large as the one you work for is a complete and total waste of time. They've already decided what's going to happen long before they get to your input.

well it's a catch 22 on that. there are times they take my ideas and have used them and people love the results but somebody else gets the new titles and promotions and swag. while I toil away.

then when they ask for more on something epic in scale, they go the opposite way. well you asked and i told you and you didn't listen now you have the entire US scrambling.

the dumbest people ever.

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I know how you feel. We get called in every time the poo hits the fan. We work every holliday... Christmas, Thanksgiving, you name it. We currently are on a schedule that allows us every other weekend off, if we are lucky. They put us on 12's despite our objections, said they needed more manpower.

And you have to work on Thursday lol.

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I have vented before about my battles with upper mgt at work. In the Spring they roll out a totally new platform that is worldwide for us to use. After a couple of conference calls I said it aint gonna work.

But because of the buy in from the powers that be and the money already spent, it was basically too big too fail.

So now we are falling further and further behind and everybody has been frustrated etc and clients and sales are hounding us.

So today a nice little bombshell gets dropped on us. They want us to work tomorrow(bank holiday) and a couple of Sat's this month. I was expecting a total revolution, blood in the cubes from my fellow co workers and they all are like, ok. We will do it.

I had to walk away I was shaking I was so mad. NOW we are behind because they did NOT listen to good ole pstall and people who have been working 60 hours a week now have to work even MORE?

They say they understand if we had plans tomorrow but really need us.

I haven't been this livid since the Cardinals playoff game.

But to see everybody roll over and just accept the stupid mantra of it is what is to me is unacceptable.

Somewhere somebody is laughing. wow

Ah, bend over and take it like a man! (I'm kidding!)

What Carolina Husker said:

Sharing ideas at a company as large as the one you work for is a complete and total waste of time. They've already decided what's going to happen long before they get to your input.

Unfortunately, this is probably a good example of the "Peter Prinicpal" at work. (F'up and move up!) Whomever dreamed this up, has most likely been promoted. Now everyone else is stuck to make it work!

There was one thing that happened at IBM. They weren't afraid to make U-Turns. If something or someone didn't work, they would have people figure out how to replace it with something that did. (Now they didn't make great decisions in the first place that litterally cost them millions! (They could have had DOS and all it follow-ons for $20K to Bill Gates! And, they wouldn't have spent millions on developing OS2 to compete against Windows! (Where is OS2 today?))

Speaking of Bill Gates. Sell it to Microsoft for $10,000. He will put 1,000's of programmers on it, get it working and them re-sell it to banks for 1/2 Million!

I know bank people cherish their time off. Sorry.

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I have vented before about my battles with upper mgt at work. In the Spring they roll out a totally new platform that is worldwide for us to use. After a couple of conference calls I said it aint gonna work.

But because of the buy in from the powers that be and the money already spent, it was basically too big too fail.

So now we are falling further and further behind and everybody has been frustrated etc and clients and sales are hounding us.

So today a nice little bombshell gets dropped on us. They want us to work tomorrow(bank holiday) and a couple of Sat's this month. I was expecting a total revolution, blood in the cubes from my fellow co workers and they all are like, ok. We will do it.

I had to walk away I was shaking I was so mad. NOW we are behind because they did NOT listen to good ole pstall and people who have been working 60 hours a week now have to work even MORE?

They say they understand if we had plans tomorrow but really need us.

I haven't been this livid since the Cardinals playoff game.

But to see everybody roll over and just accept the stupid mantra of it is what is to me is unacceptable.

Somewhere somebody is laughing. wow

I can 100% relate to what your saying. Only I gurantee you my job is worse. Sounds like you work at a company where ass-kissing will get you further than actual talent. I've learned not to hate those who brown nose their way up cuz quite frankly that got they exactly what they want, but I will never stoop to that level and sounds like you wont either.

Solution to your prob...smoke some trees when u get off work, if this doesent work, buy a bottle of visine and smoke some trees before you go in.

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been 20 years since i smoked trees but man...they might push me back. haha

What kills me is to me at least, I can see the tsunami coming months in advance, warn them, email, do shadow puppets you name it and they don't budge. then they acted stunned when it happens and roll out all kinds of contingency plans.

Now im like here, do this for this mess we are in so people don't have to work on holidays or sat's. Even with that they are like umm, gee pstall, we don't know. What do you mean you don't freakin know? This will help everybody out. I don't give a crap who gets credit.

Either way, this guy is teeing off at 930 am tomorrow.

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