Soooo…
Early last week I asked one of my ‘dumb operator’ questions in a meeting…
Got the usual Polish salutes, dunnos, that’s not a valid question, etc. After the meeting, the boss says set up a meeting at XYZ and lets find out what the right answer to your convoluted question is.
Off I go, trying to get that done. XYZ doesn’t want a cast of thousands, so I tell the boss, he gives me a list of people, and I go back and forth with XYZ and the list on available dates/times to have the meeting. After a couple of back and forths, the decision is to have the meeting this morning.
Great!
Except, I got an email yesterday evening, that due to limits on the space, I’m no longer invited to the meeting (this came from some admin type at XYZ).
Rilly, I mean RILLY???
So now I’m sitting in my office waiting for a phone call from my boss wondering why I’m NOT at the meeting to ask my convoluted question, and why I didn’t call him (betting he STILL hasn’t checked his voicemail for the message I left last night).
Should be all kinds of fun today… Can I retire yet???
Sigh… And it’s ONLY Wednesday…
I asked a stupid question in a meeting.
I then had to write a white paper on the issue. The Power Point briefing came next.
That became a paper give at a symposium with everybody name on it but mine.
The pain goes away after awhile.
So you’re not invited to the meeting you requested? That happened to me once, too. I never asked for another, after that, and I’m told the indignation goes away.
You’ll be the first to know when it happens … 🙂
Must be a subset to, “No good deed goes unpunished”.
Gerry, the same thing happened to me when I was at Boeing.
I made some suggestions to a Senior Engineer, who promptly told me I was full of sh1t, and spent 5 minutes explaining why my suggestion couldn’t work, even though it was something done in the commercial world.
Six months later the guy writes a paper about a “new” method of doing this process, and wins a $10k award.
Oh, well……..
Hold your horses… I wonder if part of the disconnect might be that it’s Thursday here on the Best coast, and Wednesday on the LEast coast. So according to my calculations your either a day early or a week late for the meeting.
Gerry/drjim- Happens WAY too often… Publish or perish crap and all…
Rev- Not requested, DIRECTED to set up… sigh
WSF- Of course
Dammit- The meeting was this morning, the disinvite call last night… See the next post.
Sounds like they’ve been to the school of Passive Aggressive Project Management, too. Maybe they teach there.
PE- Yep!!!