also rough time - work...

[jessmarimba]

I know I shouldn't complain - I do HAVE a job - but I've been in tears all afternoon. Kind of the straw that has (most recently) broken the camel's back.

Our report review process is getting out of hand. I turn something in. One person reviews it. They pass it on. Another person reviews it. I receive it, make corrections (a number of which are pretty arbitrary and not legally relevant). I turn in the corrected report. It gets reviewed AGAIN. I make more arbitrary corrections. Etc. It's at the point where it is taking me longer to correct reports - some of which are updates of reports that have ALREADY been issued once - than it took me to write them to begin with. And I don't generally consider myself to be unqualified...I'm one of the employees who has been in my department the longest.

Today, I received a report back that was pretty much slaughtered. I had gone over a number of issues with my in-office superior, who agreed, reviewed, and passed it on. The head of our department, who re-reviewed it, decided she was changing how we deal with a lot of those issues (just for this report?) and when I pointed this out, she seemed to go on the offensive. I give up. I get good numbers in my annual reviews, but I'm starting to feel like I never should have been hired to begin with. I have no idea how much red ink everyone else is seeing, but I'm completely at a loss on how to deal with this. It's insulting. I'm working my butt off to turn in quality work and it's really, really difficult to take. Arbitrary corrections are bad enough, but changing our whole report process because someone is, I don't know, having a bad day? Trying to get something in my work record? I'm fed up!!

I don't even know what I'm asking. I'm just really frustrated right now, and I'm sure my SO is tired of hearing me complain about this job.

[bmccasland]

[[[[[[[Jess]]]]]]]

Someone has to decide where the review / re-review // re-re-review process stops. Or how many revisions are required. I've been through this painful process for a document that went to Washington. It wasn't fun. I feel your pain.

I've spent the past week editing a poorly written report, that includes a cut & paste job from a near-by project - just close enough to confuse the issue. I have to carefully review and edit every section. Would have been easier if the primary author just saved the outline of the prior document and introductory paragraphs than start with an existing document, and over-write as they went along. Then abandon it, which left me to figure out the method to 1st author's maddness, and fix it. Fortunately my supervisor is in full support when I tell the project manager that we won't meet the schedule.

Hope your flying with the turkeys is better next week - you do have the weekend off to decompress? Go for a bike ride. Out with the bad air, in with the good air.

[ClockworkOrange]

((((((((((( Jesse ))))))))))))

Damn, that is all so unfair, don't they realise you are still recovering from a broken back, you should still be getting plenty of TLC!

Maybe time to open a nice bottle of wine this weekend.

Hugs

Clock

[Selkie]

Try not to take it personally. My philosophy is that my (insert work unit, office, agency, etc) produces the product--even though I take great pride in producing an excellent quality product. Ultimately, the big boss is responsible for that product so it must meet that person's standard.

In my experience, some reviewers feel compelled to make editorial/substantive changes, just to show he/she reviewed the document. When those changes are minor or nitpicky, it can be annoying. Not worth torturing yourself over....

[malkin]

That sounds completely frustrating.