You know you work for Megacorp when...

[M Paquette]

We get a directive from our VP to scrap the detailed, narrative, useful, descriptive doc we do every year and replace it with a useless, incomprehensible, color-coded spreadsheet (which I have to fill out). The instructions on how to fill out the sheets are what appear to be a barely intelligible draft. I called and emailed one person for guidance (on vacation). Then I emailed a department that is supposed to be entirely focused on this sort of thing. They have never heard of it. Two days later someone up their chain of command acknowledges the existence of the sheet and I am now still getting copied on Keystone Kops-style exchanges. Meanwhile, I have given up on getting usable guidance and have started doing my best, since the submission deadline is approaching...

Ah, yeah, about that deadline... Wally has a pretty good plan.

 

[Purron]

Sounds suspiciously like TPS reports Brew....

 

[brewer12345]

Sounds suspiciously like TPS reports Brew....

TPS reports seem to be at least 90% of my daily routine these days. The only deviation is when I stick my hand in to find stuff out, and then my reports of what I heard are mostly ignored.

 

[BunsGettingFirm]

A literal quote from an email I got yesterday:

"Thank you for surfacing this issue and forwarding it to the appropriate stakeholders."

Give them a break. They have been holding their stakes for a long time.