Really? Oh You Don't Say
Have you ever been vindicated by your boss at work? How 'bout your boss' boss? Well, what about your boss' boss' boss?
Well, I was today. There was some "goof" with some highly visible parts I am working on. Two guys were trying to explain to me what went wrong and how we could correct it in the future. Bah. Yeah, that is nice guys - but all I care about it keeping my parts moving. I have a deadline to make. I want to see if I can salvage these parts and ship them to the outsource on time. I don't have time to rework the parts nor do I have the material on hand to start from scratch. And their suggestions? Things we had already discussed and the customer and us decided not to do them. The two guys didn't listen to me.
So I ask the guys if we could do something to them to use them once I make sure we can do further processing on them. The guys continue to to talk about why the parts are wrong and how we can't use them because of this and that. I refute their claims stating I know how the parts are used by the customer and how they are basically processed at the outsource. No one wanted to listen to me. So I just put a halt to things. Told them what I was going to do, what I will do later and I took my parts.
Gah! Even later when the data was finally collected - after the one of the guys had taken the parts back to his area, my boss^3 came down and talked to us. And then SmackDown #1 and SmackDown #2. My boss came down for SmackDown #3.
It was sweet sweet revenge. Iit was good to know I was thinking along the same track as my boss^3. But we will be able to use the parts and in the future the instructions for the guys will be updated to ensure they do what they are supposed to so no more "goofs" happen.
It is always nice to have a great day at work.
Well, I was today. There was some "goof" with some highly visible parts I am working on. Two guys were trying to explain to me what went wrong and how we could correct it in the future. Bah. Yeah, that is nice guys - but all I care about it keeping my parts moving. I have a deadline to make. I want to see if I can salvage these parts and ship them to the outsource on time. I don't have time to rework the parts nor do I have the material on hand to start from scratch. And their suggestions? Things we had already discussed and the customer and us decided not to do them. The two guys didn't listen to me.
So I ask the guys if we could do something to them to use them once I make sure we can do further processing on them. The guys continue to to talk about why the parts are wrong and how we can't use them because of this and that. I refute their claims stating I know how the parts are used by the customer and how they are basically processed at the outsource. No one wanted to listen to me. So I just put a halt to things. Told them what I was going to do, what I will do later and I took my parts.
Gah! Even later when the data was finally collected - after the one of the guys had taken the parts back to his area, my boss^3 came down and talked to us. And then SmackDown #1 and SmackDown #2. My boss came down for SmackDown #3.
It was sweet sweet revenge. Iit was good to know I was thinking along the same track as my boss^3. But we will be able to use the parts and in the future the instructions for the guys will be updated to ensure they do what they are supposed to so no more "goofs" happen.
It is always nice to have a great day at work.
posted by Margaret @ 7:54 PM
<< Home