Strange strange organisation

KiKi

Oh, god. I mean this nicely, I really do, and I'm going to try and say this nicely.

You posted ages ago - more than once - about this. You were advised over and over to leave. You complained about how odd your boss and job are, and how bizarre the boundaries are between work and social life.

And yet you're still here, still doing it.

Either leave, as per ALL the advice you've been given, or stay and stop complaining! There's no point posting once every six months then ignoring all the advice you've been given, there really isn't.

KiKi

scheming_gypsy

Yorkie1 wrote: »

The application of unlawful force to a person, or causing them to apprehend the same, is capable of being an assault. Pulling someone's top is almost certain to involve one or the other. An assault doesn't have to involve a punch.

what?

pulling somebody's top up isn't lifting it over their head, just 'pulling' it up so it covers their chest which doesn't involve unlawful force.
If anybody thinks it's assault then society has failed us.

elisebutt65

dilemma10 wrote: »

In all honesty I am not sure apart from this - I am 23 years of age and think I have landed a position of power in a field I love - further education. We are a membership organisation and I run the policy and comms, albeit on £28k a year. I think I am paid a not bad salary and I get to attend some very high level meetings and do some very gripping work that gets sent direct to Ministers. I am not sure how I can get the same coverage elsewhere.

It's not the iFL is it? Cos you may not have a job for much longer with all the members refusing to pay!!

Lakeuk

I think most people would have been to team building seasons which everyone plays along with but forgets about once finished, only to be mentioned in banter down the pub as to how rubbish it all was.

If these are more regular then you need to find a way to play along and even forget about it and refrain from getting involve in the language from session back in the office

frugaliciousnow

Couldn't resist the temptation to look up 4th way enneagram. My head hurts:rotfl:. If I could figure out what they are on about, then I might be able to figure out whether anything like this is remotely relevant to running an organisation.

Gut reaction to that (whether it is or isn't the "way of things" in your organisation) is that anyone who invents such a lot of gobbledygook as that just isn't on the same planet as any of the rest of us (I was being tactful phrasing it that way).

Whatever you do about staying with this organisation, you need to "put your foot down" about working such long hours (whatever "you are type such and such" cover-up language gets used against you as a way of putting you down as a consequence). Organisations can be more or less informal and I've thought nothing of going off for lunch at an employers' house before now, but I would draw the line at staying the night (just say you've got pets at home that need feeding if need be).

Errata

dilemma10 wrote: »

In all honesty I am not sure apart from this - I am 23 years of age and think I have landed a position of power in a field I love - further education. We are a membership organisation and I run the policy and comms, albeit on £28k a year. I think I am paid a not bad salary and I get to attend some very high level meetings and do some very gripping work that gets sent direct to Ministers. I am not sure how I can get the same coverage elsewhere.

At the same time, I am also very very overworked and when I had my last appraisal asked for a different job title also hinted at a pay rise but got told I was too much of an ego, and if I was not careful would become 'lazy'. Ridiculous, I work 60 hours plus, and I adore the 'nature' of the work but the team ethics, weird stuff we are subjected to is getting to me. Also my boss is very powerful and has a massive reputation, my leave period is 3 months and I think they would make it hell!

Frankly, it sounds like a tinpot organisation with crackpot management.

Sambucus_Nigra

Unless you use your knowledge of this 4th Way Enneagram to get what you want and manipulate the boss; then seriously - as Kiki says - leave or stop going on about it!

And why oh why oh why would you EVER sleep at your boss's house?

seven-day-weekend

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

Are you working for the scientologists? It sounds like a cult? bad climate or not it sounds very wierd.
Just give your notice and leave with your sanity in tact.

I thought that too! Scientology or The Family or some similar cult.

Get out while you can. Seriously!

seven-day-weekend

dilemma10 wrote: »

It is called the Enneagram and it is driving me insane!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality

Sounds highly suspect to me. I would be out of that place like a shot!!

seven-day-weekend

dilemma10 wrote: »

Yes yes yes, we use that chart! At the last workshop we had to do soliloquys on what anger symbolised to us with other team members, then we had to sit in circles and repeat over and over how we had felt supported...it's all bizarre. I am the worse for it because I go along with it, but it's starting to make my head spin. In team meetings, there will be chatter about people and the boss will chirp up 'Oh they're bound to be type 2, or type 3 or type 9' it's ridiculous and to make matters worse, when I did the tests originally, I was on a boundary between type 2 (helper) and type 3 (achiever). I think I am more type 3 but the boss keeps going on about how I am type 2. It's all ridiculous...and you can read from my ramblings here that i feel like I am headed to a breakdown!
I got given the Book of Runes as a xmas present...:rotfl:

....this, coupled with what else you have said:eek:: do not go back to that place, ever.