Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:16 pm
Started a new job last week. Left the massive international company for a much smaller one of ~160 people. The culture change is massive, which is exactly what I was looking for along the standard new job must-haves and nice-to-haves and what not. The politics, the power-plays and the red tape really got to me by the end of the last gig. It was nearly impossible to get anything done because of all those factors and ultimately, no one really knew what their official job was, so there was little accountability all around. I was mostly doing reporting and analytics work that no one ultimately cared about so it never went anywhere. That was frustrating.
Got a rather large project on my plate now, so things will be busy for a while. Gotta map out a large section of a supply chain process, from start to finish. Then gotta get the IT teams to implement, test, correct, test, correct, test, change, test, have all parties sign off, develop SOPs, train the people that will actually do it and then turn the thing on to go live and let the ops folks handle from there.
Will be fun, but there sure is a challenge ahead; also a tremendous opportunity to grow my skill sets and in the long-term, as this has potential to lay the foundation for me to go off on my own into consulting if I choose to stop working for the man at some point.
I fell into this career right before the first standard shift meet (started the job just a month or so before it) and it seems like such a long time ago now. So many things have changed over the years and I'm honestly surprised to find myself where I am as I never really planned to be here. In fact, I'm not sure how much I planned overall.
Got a rather large project on my plate now, so things will be busy for a while. Gotta map out a large section of a supply chain process, from start to finish. Then gotta get the IT teams to implement, test, correct, test, correct, test, change, test, have all parties sign off, develop SOPs, train the people that will actually do it and then turn the thing on to go live and let the ops folks handle from there.
Will be fun, but there sure is a challenge ahead; also a tremendous opportunity to grow my skill sets and in the long-term, as this has potential to lay the foundation for me to go off on my own into consulting if I choose to stop working for the man at some point.
I fell into this career right before the first standard shift meet (started the job just a month or so before it) and it seems like such a long time ago now. So many things have changed over the years and I'm honestly surprised to find myself where I am as I never really planned to be here. In fact, I'm not sure how much I planned overall.