This is a rant. There will be no redeeming value in what follows. Just go with it.
More often than not I enjoy my job. It's stimulating enough to keep me from getting bored and I like the satisfaction of actually accomplishing something everyday. However, there is one HUGE problem with my office - our communication culture is utter crap. I'm part of the IT department at my firm. I work on case management sysyem. I don't really deal with the day to day support that the rest of the team deals with. This gives me a rather unique perspective: not fully IT, not fully attorney.
We have a gal in our office who submits a lot of help tickets to IT. Really a lot. Like 8-10 a day. Often repeating what she asked about in a previous ticket. Her tickets are almost always in all caps, with multiple exclamation marks. Not once have I read a ticket from her that actually contained enough information for us to actually help her. She raises all of our blood pressure. We do not like her.
Despite her inherent obnoxiousness we still have to help her. The things she needs are actually important for the proper functioning of our business. A few weeks ago she submitted a ticket to us for something that was not actually an IT issue and we couldn't have helped her. Did anyone actually tell her this? No. The ticket languished unclaimed in the system until one of my co-workers decided to just close it. Without actually telling her that it wasn't an IT issue would she please go talk to the folks who are actually responsible for that. Yes, she is obnoxious but if we don't tell her to change her behavior then we are partially responsible for it. If someone (the particular person who first noticed this) had just taken the time to respond to the damned ticket when she saw it we wouldn't have gotten yelled at. Our behavior turned something that wasn't actually our problem and made it our problem.
Take the 30 seconds to communicate before it becomes a problem. Why is that so fricken difficult for some people? My urge to hex everyone involved is large. As much as I would love to see some just desserts it would just make things more difficult. I'm going to have to create some kind of mini-altar to communication on my desk instead. Probably better in the long run but not nearly as satisfying. *sigh*
More often than not I enjoy my job. It's stimulating enough to keep me from getting bored and I like the satisfaction of actually accomplishing something everyday. However, there is one HUGE problem with my office - our communication culture is utter crap. I'm part of the IT department at my firm. I work on case management sysyem. I don't really deal with the day to day support that the rest of the team deals with. This gives me a rather unique perspective: not fully IT, not fully attorney.
We have a gal in our office who submits a lot of help tickets to IT. Really a lot. Like 8-10 a day. Often repeating what she asked about in a previous ticket. Her tickets are almost always in all caps, with multiple exclamation marks. Not once have I read a ticket from her that actually contained enough information for us to actually help her. She raises all of our blood pressure. We do not like her.
Despite her inherent obnoxiousness we still have to help her. The things she needs are actually important for the proper functioning of our business. A few weeks ago she submitted a ticket to us for something that was not actually an IT issue and we couldn't have helped her. Did anyone actually tell her this? No. The ticket languished unclaimed in the system until one of my co-workers decided to just close it. Without actually telling her that it wasn't an IT issue would she please go talk to the folks who are actually responsible for that. Yes, she is obnoxious but if we don't tell her to change her behavior then we are partially responsible for it. If someone (the particular person who first noticed this) had just taken the time to respond to the damned ticket when she saw it we wouldn't have gotten yelled at. Our behavior turned something that wasn't actually our problem and made it our problem.
Take the 30 seconds to communicate before it becomes a problem. Why is that so fricken difficult for some people? My urge to hex everyone involved is large. As much as I would love to see some just desserts it would just make things more difficult. I'm going to have to create some kind of mini-altar to communication on my desk instead. Probably better in the long run but not nearly as satisfying. *sigh*
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