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Seevio

Guru
Location
South Glos
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Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
 
My biggest failing in life.
If only I could do the stuff that needs doing.

At work we call it “ bottom-of-the-pile-itis”
As anything tricky just gets put to the bottom of the pile.

When I was made redundant my manager was rather horrified to find out (after I was told) that I had a "Things To Do" list running to 3 pages

and a lot of them involved significant savings to the company

I reckon it cost them about a million over about 5 years to get rid of me

I reckon the manager's manger made sure no-one else found out how many risks they were taking and how much they could have saved

but that was a SEP (somebody else's problem) by then!

(I did find that they had had to duplicate a whole computer system to deal with extra credit card stuff
the people I used to work with denied all knowledge of how to change it
the guy who told me this - in a chippy near my Mum's house - was not surprised when I told him it was a change to 2 characters in one program!)
 

kynikos

Veteran
Location
Elmet
My biggest failing in life.
If only I could do the stuff that needs doing.

At work we call it “ bottom-of-the-pile-itis”
As anything tricky just gets put to the bottom of the pile.

My method:
1. All incoming work to top of pile.
2. When asked what's happened to 'X' remove it from the pile and, if it's important/crucial process it. If it's not put it back but at the top of the pile.
3. Every month remove bottom third of pile and bin it.
 
My method:
1. All incoming work to top of pile.
2. When asked what's happened to 'X' remove it from the pile and, if it's important/crucial process it. If it's not put it back but at the top of the pile.
3. Every month remove bottom third of pile and bin it.

My boss used to do that

people who talked to him and asked him for things got it done

if they just sent him an email he would print it off and put it on the email pile until someone talked to him about it

and he was one of the most techy people in the IT department - still printed emails like that off just so he could put it on the pile

He was made redundant on the same day as me
his email pile was about 2 foot high and he took great pleasure on dumping the whole thing in the bin
 
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