...grrr, grrr, grrr and grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
I am so upset. It appears that the senior management here are questionning my abilities in public staff meetings. More and more of my job is being eroded away 0 is this constructive dismissal? I leave work each day with a headache.
Rant over.
Friday 7 August 2009
Kitten with Aptitude
Honestly do people really think I am a berk sometimes? With my spidey-radar I can spot spiders at 100 paces and with my kitten senses I know full well when someone is having me on.
Take for example this weeks marketing trickery. Now dear reader, you must understand that I work in a place where little is written, the company is led by characters and it's deriguer for the senility (sorry seniorities) to change their minds - regularly...even after it has gone to print.
Pah! This week I have been battling to get my publicity brochure to the next stage; it's only been a year afterall. Now after spending quite some time with the design company last week and then pinging the brochure via email to my boss for a senior managment team meeting, I was feeling quite please with myself. But not for long.
The next day I asked the Director if he had seen the new brochure. The conversation went something like this (imagine my surprise - it was real):
Me: Hi, did you see the brochure I sent yesterday evening? Any feedback?
Boss: Wll I saw one of them and it looked very old and I had reservations about it.
M: Oh but I sent a new one and was on the phone to my line -manager who said that she had recieved it.
B: Oh, we'll we did see something but the colour photocopier was broken and then A and R's eyseight isn't as good as it used to be so reading a black and white copy was difficult. So no decisions.
M: Oh. ok thanks. (sounding dissapointed but knowing when I am fobbed off)
Later that day:
Me: Hello (ANOTHER DIRECTOR) did you see the brochure last night.
AD: Oh yes we did. We batted it about for a while and we had some discussion over the changes you had made. Finally we decided that the register wasn't right and that one of the directors should re-write it next week.
Me: But that negates everything that I've done.
AD: Not really -we think you have it at a good design level but we did question why you had changed a colour of the logo.
Me: Well because it was the wrong colour and didn't match the rest of the brochure - it looked random. Funny really, because Dave said he hadn't seen it.
AD: Oh.
Sometime yesterday:
Me: About the brochure - can we chat?
Line Manager: Yes I've heard what's been said. I thought you might smell a rat.
Me: Well I like to think that I've been blessed with a little aptitude.
Me:Well I'm annoyed actually. Especially as I'm not allowed to change what you as directors have written. Boss keeps saying that information has been ommitted and wants to add it in but then says that the same information must be ommitted from our website for vat reasons. How would I know? It's embarassing he keeps changing his mind and says that he hasn't agreed stuff.
LM: Yes. I've worked with him for 10 years and that's what it's like.
Me: How can I possible change stuff that you have written when I get told I am not permitted to change XYZ that was in the text and I disagreed with. X said I had to leave it as it was.
LM: Ah! Really?! That was what was brought up...... (look of perplexity) I realise you couldn't possibly know this stuff.
Ho hum - so basically this brochure could take me a lifetime. I was less than impressed and although I like to think that if I become hardened it will stand me in good stead for a career, I'm basically pissed off that I can't do my job properly. It also looks ike some of the directors can't decide which way round they want to walk that day.
Take for example this weeks marketing trickery. Now dear reader, you must understand that I work in a place where little is written, the company is led by characters and it's deriguer for the senility (sorry seniorities) to change their minds - regularly...even after it has gone to print.
Pah! This week I have been battling to get my publicity brochure to the next stage; it's only been a year afterall. Now after spending quite some time with the design company last week and then pinging the brochure via email to my boss for a senior managment team meeting, I was feeling quite please with myself. But not for long.
The next day I asked the Director if he had seen the new brochure. The conversation went something like this (imagine my surprise - it was real):
Me: Hi, did you see the brochure I sent yesterday evening? Any feedback?
Boss: Wll I saw one of them and it looked very old and I had reservations about it.
M: Oh but I sent a new one and was on the phone to my line -manager who said that she had recieved it.
B: Oh, we'll we did see something but the colour photocopier was broken and then A and R's eyseight isn't as good as it used to be so reading a black and white copy was difficult. So no decisions.
M: Oh. ok thanks. (sounding dissapointed but knowing when I am fobbed off)
Later that day:
Me: Hello (ANOTHER DIRECTOR) did you see the brochure last night.
AD: Oh yes we did. We batted it about for a while and we had some discussion over the changes you had made. Finally we decided that the register wasn't right and that one of the directors should re-write it next week.
Me: But that negates everything that I've done.
AD: Not really -we think you have it at a good design level but we did question why you had changed a colour of the logo.
Me: Well because it was the wrong colour and didn't match the rest of the brochure - it looked random. Funny really, because Dave said he hadn't seen it.
AD: Oh.
Sometime yesterday:
Me: About the brochure - can we chat?
Line Manager: Yes I've heard what's been said. I thought you might smell a rat.
Me: Well I like to think that I've been blessed with a little aptitude.
Me:Well I'm annoyed actually. Especially as I'm not allowed to change what you as directors have written. Boss keeps saying that information has been ommitted and wants to add it in but then says that the same information must be ommitted from our website for vat reasons. How would I know? It's embarassing he keeps changing his mind and says that he hasn't agreed stuff.
LM: Yes. I've worked with him for 10 years and that's what it's like.
Me: How can I possible change stuff that you have written when I get told I am not permitted to change XYZ that was in the text and I disagreed with. X said I had to leave it as it was.
LM: Ah! Really?! That was what was brought up...... (look of perplexity) I realise you couldn't possibly know this stuff.
Ho hum - so basically this brochure could take me a lifetime. I was less than impressed and although I like to think that if I become hardened it will stand me in good stead for a career, I'm basically pissed off that I can't do my job properly. It also looks ike some of the directors can't decide which way round they want to walk that day.
Tuesday 4 August 2009
Paws for thought!
I'm the Frustrated Kitten and this is my blog about my (mis)adventures in marketing, the frsutrations, the wins and also the downright incomprehensible moments that make you think 'What on earth...? Are you mad?'
I'm no guru but sometimes you do wonder. Anyway, see the trials and tribulations and have a chuckle on the way. Oh and send me some feedback when you have a mo', I'd love to hear about you and what you do in the marketing world.
Happy reading!
The Frustrated Kitten
I'm no guru but sometimes you do wonder. Anyway, see the trials and tribulations and have a chuckle on the way. Oh and send me some feedback when you have a mo', I'd love to hear about you and what you do in the marketing world.
Happy reading!
The Frustrated Kitten
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