Well, this is just silly. My department used to maintain sales forecasts for all our accounts - that's done at an aggregate level now so that has supposedly lessened my workload by removing that task. I have stuff I could say about that, but that is not my current purpose. Another department that I work closely with now has to maintain their sales forecasts and didn't before, so I have my coworker in that department leaning on my expertise for how to do the thing that is not my responsibility any more VERY HEAVILY.
I don't mind that she asks, and I do remember how to do it, but it's a ridiculous situation. Streamlined my ass.
Hahahaha no one told that department anything at all. Oops. Communication is a core value. Sigh.
We have a "Strategic Communications" team that refuses to share information with the rest of the staff. This morning my boss asked me to include some information about a blog post that they'd sent out ... except they didn't share with staff, so I had to go into our mass email system, find the message and send it to myself, since the preview wouldn't let me get the information or the URL to link to.
Oh, I think you have mentioned them before, Toddson. That's Kafkaesque. Or maybe Orwellian.
We have a "Strategic Communications" team that refuses to share information with the rest of the staff.
I guess technically that's a strategy.
-t actually, it's more like a Kafkaesque satire on Orwell.
(5 points for anyone that gets the reference)
Our strategic communication is more like me yelling, "Are you listening to me?" across the house to DH. We try meetings from time to time.
Speaking of Kafka-esque and Orwellian, I had a moment the other day that was slightly weird and I thought...."This feels Charlie Kaufmann-esque." Not Fellini-esque. Not Lynchian. Kaufmannesque.
[I was in line at TJ's and the woman in front of me was a slender woman with red-auburn hair and yoga pants. And I looked to the left and there was a woman of exact same typology - same reddish brown hair, same length, similar mask, yoga pants. And I felt certain if I looked to the right or behind me, I would be surrounded by the Auburn Lululemons.]
That sounds like a situation where you would really want to know what genre you are in
