Overbearing Policy and Procedures
Discussion
How do you guys deal with it?
Been at the company 3 months now and everything, and I mean everything, has to be completed with a bewildering array of templates, procedures, policies and general bureaucratic and administrative faff.
I spend more time reading policy manuals, trying to locate the right set of forms to fill in and justifying the simplest of things just to start something.
I've not had experience of working somewhere where they follow the ISO letter of the law so specifically and the explanation is it streamlines everything and means 'your' back is covered.
Well, I'm mired in quicksand and can't get anything done and my job is to kick start the sales and marketing efforts but I can't get sign off on anything because specific RoI can't be measured to the dime via five different metrics.
Very tedious.
Been at the company 3 months now and everything, and I mean everything, has to be completed with a bewildering array of templates, procedures, policies and general bureaucratic and administrative faff.
I spend more time reading policy manuals, trying to locate the right set of forms to fill in and justifying the simplest of things just to start something.
I've not had experience of working somewhere where they follow the ISO letter of the law so specifically and the explanation is it streamlines everything and means 'your' back is covered.
Well, I'm mired in quicksand and can't get anything done and my job is to kick start the sales and marketing efforts but I can't get sign off on anything because specific RoI can't be measured to the dime via five different metrics.
Very tedious.
I spent a long time working at a small independently-owned business, which was later taken over by a massive multi-national corporation, and the single biggest thing that annoyed me was having to find procedures and, sometimes, ways around them. Things we'd done for years (many of which resulted in profit) suddenly had to stop because there was no procedure in place to handle it. Then they closed the office down.
That said, there is something to be said for record-keeping if it has a purpose. Watching the recent documentary about building the cross-rail line under central London, I saw the kind of information they were working to that had been gathered and managed since Victorian times, and reflected on the fact that we probably didn't have any written records of cabling we'd installed the week before.
That said, there is something to be said for record-keeping if it has a purpose. Watching the recent documentary about building the cross-rail line under central London, I saw the kind of information they were working to that had been gathered and managed since Victorian times, and reflected on the fact that we probably didn't have any written records of cabling we'd installed the week before.
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