What a load of shit.
Exactly.
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Sore.
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“Can’t boil the ocean…”
‘the art of the possible’
“how do you eat an elephant?”
“bite by bite”
“The rubber has hit the road…”
We are now having a “huddle” every morning in the office at 9am. We all stand up and quickly go through what we have on for the day and what potential blockages we have and whether additional resources need to be allocated. It’s supposed to take 5-10 minutes.
Except it takes 25 minutes. Given that I am the only one working on new business, this means that we spend approximately 24 minutes and 30 seconds talking about operational issues and current clients that I have no involvement or interest in. Most of it seems to involve bitching from the customer service people about clients or account managers.
In other words, it is a massive pain in the hole. I can avoid this a few times during the week with prospect meetings, but the rest of the time I am subjected to this. It’s important that I’m involved apparently as part of the team, even though I haven’t a clue what they’re talking about most of the time and couldn’t really care less either.
I put the need for this complete waste of time down to the fact that people don’t actually talk to each other anymore in organizations, small and large. Like, I get emails from people sitting 3 metres away about the most mundane things, where the answer is a yes / no. Just fucking ask me, stop trying to make sure you have it in writing that something is done. I never reply to emails like that, I just shout out the answer and it’s done. An example “Fitzy, the quotes you wanted today won’t be ready until tomorrow, is this OK?” In an email from someone sitting 3 metres away. Copying in two other people who couldn’t give a flying fuck whather I get my quotes. Life shouldn’t be this hard.
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We call this a ‘scrum’ in the IT world.
We have “huddles” too. Embarrassing
Sounds like the ops team need to get together as the sales guys keep over promising what can be delivered.
Let’s face it, you are a dinosaur in the modern business world. These huddles will change your life in ways you never thought possible. You will probably improve your team efficiency by 10-15% and be much happier in yourself. It is clear to us all on the board here that you have communication and anger management issues. Maybe these huddles will bring you out of yourself a bit.
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Quelle surprise!
“Taking the laboring oar”
If only the lads in Heatons could see you now @Fitzy. Back store manager to office guy.
Fintan would be soooo proud of you 
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What’s your PPS number?
Genuinely annoying one this morning.
Asked to “cascade” something to my team when I assume the word he was looking for was “send”
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I often use cascade when sending information to team leads or SMEs. It is a perfectly acceptable term.
We’ll let the board decide on this day we celebrate democracy
Cascade is ok
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