Professionalism - Part 2

Now, to be fair to Ms. Thropic, or "Anne" as I'm sure her friends would call her if that, in fact, was her name...

I wouldn't have gotten the gig with this company if she was inclinded to buckle down and do stuff she doesn't particularly feel like doing. Somehow, a client wanted some major engineering muscle expended on "validating" the company's manufacturing machinery and they agreed to do it. Supposedly with Anne helming the project!

I've previously posted about how I came to work at this place, but the bottom line is that "Annie" doesn't do well when it comes to reading and understanding technical stuff.

As in "(Giggle) this is too complicated for someone as cute and princess-like as myself! And, besides, I'm too valuable an asset to this company to actually have to follow through on something I promised we'd do."

So they hired a very desperate guy who had run out of unemployment benefits to do this fairly massive project, i.e. Me!

Note: This is a small Mom-n-Pop operation and there is no depth to their "engineering resources" for such an undertaking. In fact, the folks around here made it clear that taking up any manufacturing time or material to run these validations was going to be an uphill battle.

I held a meeting with Annie and the production manager to try to schedule these studies and it was looked upon as a major inconvenience. The production manager was having people work (gasp!) overtime to get a big, big order out. He didn't need to be wasting time running engineering studies! Hold a training session with the staff to explain what the project is and how it will be implemented? Out of the question!

Annie? Her take on this "transition team meeting" was, "Are you done with me!?!? Cool Beans!!! I'm outta here!!! Ya ha ha ha ha!!!!"

Too much of a diva to actually participate in even the shrugging off of "her" project, I suppose. (Oh, and I got burdened with providing updates to the customer that was tracking that big, big order. Yep, it was something Ms. Thropic was supposed to be doing!)

Obviously, I'm having some "issues" trying to work with these people, here...