Restructuring is our game
About a year ago, when the first of the new classification system began, ICE began losing staff like dead flies. I'd say about one a month. Instead of hiring new staff to cover these holes, ICE (being the slowest of the slow in hiring new employees) the 'visionary heads' decided that we should restructure to handle the work load. We lost a department here, consolidated departments there, fired people here, moved staff there.
After about a year of restructuring every three months or so, I have no idea who does what. Carol thinks that everyone should know how to do everyone else's job. Marketing should know sales, reception, and customer service. Publications should know classes, and conferences. Basically, everyone should know how to do everyone elses job as well as their own. That way, if they lose more staff or decide to fire people at random, then they'll easily know of someone to cover that person's job until they decide to hire someone to do that job a year & a half later.
Cool, huh?
I think so too! It rawks!! I'm totally confused!! It's like starting a new job everyday!!
Well, until we recently were given our new job titles (see earlier posts), Marketing was left to it's own devices. Sure, we had to learn some additional job duties, but we weren't really reassigned or reorganized. Nothing major, until this week. I'm sure I'll post more when I actually receive my review this week.
Anyway, Step-on-me says in our morning meeting that we're doing some shuffling of duties. That our workload is going to be reorganized to more closely match our job descriptions! Wow! So I won't be able to bitch to HR about my actual job matching my job title! Imagine that!
So yes. I'm going to predict the future now and say that my new job duties are going to be:
1.) flyers and copy+paste functions
2.) binder covers*
3.) calendar
*I'm not to sure about this one, it might require too much 'design' work. Which I am CLEARLY incapable of doing because of my new title. This is regardless of the fact that I am currently designing a 24 page catalog FROM SCRATCH. In one week, I will be incapable of performing such a function.
I don't think I'm going to be able to do mailing lists anymore. I mean, access and word are not a part of my job description, and I technically don't even require a high school degree to have my position. I definitely shouldn't be doing any more of the conference brochures as they require some intelligence, accuracy, and diligence--which is clearly not a part of my job description.
I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.
After about a year of restructuring every three months or so, I have no idea who does what. Carol thinks that everyone should know how to do everyone else's job. Marketing should know sales, reception, and customer service. Publications should know classes, and conferences. Basically, everyone should know how to do everyone elses job as well as their own. That way, if they lose more staff or decide to fire people at random, then they'll easily know of someone to cover that person's job until they decide to hire someone to do that job a year & a half later.
Cool, huh?
I think so too! It rawks!! I'm totally confused!! It's like starting a new job everyday!!
Well, until we recently were given our new job titles (see earlier posts), Marketing was left to it's own devices. Sure, we had to learn some additional job duties, but we weren't really reassigned or reorganized. Nothing major, until this week. I'm sure I'll post more when I actually receive my review this week.
Anyway, Step-on-me says in our morning meeting that we're doing some shuffling of duties. That our workload is going to be reorganized to more closely match our job descriptions! Wow! So I won't be able to bitch to HR about my actual job matching my job title! Imagine that!
So yes. I'm going to predict the future now and say that my new job duties are going to be:
1.) flyers and copy+paste functions
2.) binder covers*
3.) calendar
*I'm not to sure about this one, it might require too much 'design' work. Which I am CLEARLY incapable of doing because of my new title. This is regardless of the fact that I am currently designing a 24 page catalog FROM SCRATCH. In one week, I will be incapable of performing such a function.
I don't think I'm going to be able to do mailing lists anymore. I mean, access and word are not a part of my job description, and I technically don't even require a high school degree to have my position. I definitely shouldn't be doing any more of the conference brochures as they require some intelligence, accuracy, and diligence--which is clearly not a part of my job description.
I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.
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