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Strider590

dcouponzzzz wrote: »

I'm on board with your ideas Strider but I would personally present the automation improvement in a formal setting with the relevant stakeholders before any production takes place (assuming this option was available). Their acceptance would depend on your ability to influence the audience and sell the benefits, which I have no doubt you could do with something as useful as automating 3 month's work.

From my own experience years ago presenting something after I'd completed the proof of concept proved a waste of time... on multiple occasions other team's were working on the same ideas I presented but management hadn't communicated.

In an ideal world, or perhaps even just a normal company, but it would still have to go through my manager, who would undoubtedly then go off and pick apart my work to look for a way to discredit me, so that I couldn't present my idea to anyone else.

The whole thing I described earlier, that happened because I went to my manager to make a formal complaint about one of my colleagues being bullied by someone in another dept (as in verbal abuse about his wife and son). Instead of doing something about it (because manager was a bully too), he spent several days doing through 6 months of my work and collecting details of how long each job took, and this is where the "working too fast" BS came from.

Guy was a prize c***womble and whilst I'd like to think people like him are rare, unfortunately they're not.