So…My job presented me with a problem yesterday.

Why are problems never low-profile? All the head cheese and pimento loafs were in on this problem video conference.

and my boss (three levels up) was in the call too..He said to me “We need to do something about these problems. I never had these kinds of failures at my previous companies.”

Oooh…Lemon juice in the paper cut…It was bad enough that I had a problem with the equipment. Now it’s MY fault.

It was stinging all night.

Eeegh…

I spent all morning (after setting up another call on the SAME equipment for the head cheese and his pimento loafs…) writing out all the sub systems within the larger system that I am nominally in charge of.

I pointed out where all the weaknesses were and wrote out suggestions for what could be done to change them.

Most of what needs to be done involves more work for me. And I can’t keep up.

Since I am at work writing this blog entry, I suppose that might be hard to believe. But it’s true. Somethings, even if I technically have extra time, are out of my control because I don’t have the right AMOUNT of time.

I do the best I can.

But, that disappointing situation yesterday made me not feel like blogging.

And I don’t really feel like blogging today either, because I feel like moping about my failed conference.

But I guess that means I write a mopey blog about my problem.

The one good thing about the situation is the bad part of the situation: Things don’t get fixed until they are broken. I would not really call ONE failure BROKEN, but then that depends on how fault-tolerant you are.

Head cheeses are pretty fault-intolerant. THe loafs are more fault-tolerant, except when in proximity of the Head Cheese, at which their fault-tolerance reaches negative levels; that is, they begin to find faults to “solve” when faults do not actually exist.

SIGH.

So…! I took my Three-levels up boss for what he gave me and said, YEAH, let’s work to fix this stuff. Break out the brass polish and try to get what I need.

We’ll see what happens. It’s always dangerous to be NOTICED in a big corporation, but this could work out to my favor.

Hence the long writing out of what the system consists of and what needs help.

The two-levels up boss just walked by. He says he will be talking with me about it.

GULP. nothing ventured nothing gained.

Wish me luck.