Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Passing the buck

I have a good job for a really good company. Almost a cake job really.  So I try not to complain about triviality.  Sometimes though things happen, or things DON'T happen and that pushes me to the end of my patience.  Because of that, I might have gotten myself in trouble with my Manager yesterday.  Before the holidays a notice went out that our different teams inside our department were to put together a power point presentation to share with the other teams. High level overview of what we did on a daily/weekly basis.  My Manager asked if I wanted to take it on. No problem, I can do that. One major problem however is I am a PowerPoint for Dummies candidate.  One of my weaknesses that I admit to. Technology and I are not friends. But I used the template he sent over. Put down our basic duties and policies we covered etc and sent it over for Review. NOT a final product, just a "hey this is what I have right now am I on the right path" kind of deal. So I hear nothing. For days. Finally I go to him and say "Hey, whats going on." Because I am supposed to  present this power point in 3 hours and I haven't seen it.  So he shows me what the other team sent. And it goes WAY above a "high level" overview. So he has been tweaking ours to match theirs. And he still wasnt done. But he would get it to me before the presentation. Ok? Luckily the meeting got cancelled and pushed back a week. Great! Now I have time to prepare. So each day goes by and no powerpoint. I keep asking and get "I am working on it, we will all get together to discuss it in plenty of time, blah blah." And no power point. Until  less than two hours before the meeting where I am supposed to present. And I get an email asking if I am comfortable presenting it. To which I respond "No." But in a lot more words.  Then he gets that I am frustrated and asks me to let him have it. So I do. To which I get back a defense about how bad the powerpoint was that I submitted in the first place.  Something he and I had discussed on my last evaluation and put on my individual developement plan.  Maybe he needs to evaluate his own Individual Developement Plan for next year.........

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