Spent the day in a class about communication at work, learning how to facilitate the class. I do not feel at all prepared for actually doing so, but the person who's been doing the facilitation will work with each of us, supposedly, before we do it alone. Maybe being a 'facilitator' will look better on my resume than just 'instructor.'
So, not a bad day, but my week has been... not so good. I'm teaching a class next week, starting Sunday, and haven't even had solid news on who my co-instructor is going to be, nor have all the people who are supposed to be participating even been informed that they're supposed to be there, I'm pretty sure. The scheduler refused to do the scheduling and made me do it, the upper manager who insists on having his fingers in everything he doesn't even need to be involved with refused to come back with an answer on whether it was okay to swap someone from the next class (in three weeks) to the one starting Sunday (seriously, that should have been a rubber stamp approval - if it works for the people involved, make it happen). Nobody arranged for another room to hold the class in, so I had to set up the special computers in the training room with all the normal training computers, maxing out the electrical outlets available. Eor thinks I should turn all all the computers at the same time and see if I can't blow a fuse. ;)
I really feel as though I should have refused to do the class when I realized they were not giving the participants the two weeks notice they should have had. I'm not sure how I could have taken control of the situation, though - I'm nobody. But they made me do the scheduling, even though I'm nobody, so maybe I could have just made a new schedule and shoved it out there when I realized that the okay had not come back on it and the start date was getting closer than three weeks...? I'm never sure when to give up on stuff.
What a fucking shambles. I'm goddamned embarrassed to work for this organization.
Oh, and I'm on this medical diet, so no alcohol or even chocolate for me this week, which didn't help my mood any. :P
So, not a bad day, but my week has been... not so good. I'm teaching a class next week, starting Sunday, and haven't even had solid news on who my co-instructor is going to be, nor have all the people who are supposed to be participating even been informed that they're supposed to be there, I'm pretty sure. The scheduler refused to do the scheduling and made me do it, the upper manager who insists on having his fingers in everything he doesn't even need to be involved with refused to come back with an answer on whether it was okay to swap someone from the next class (in three weeks) to the one starting Sunday (seriously, that should have been a rubber stamp approval - if it works for the people involved, make it happen). Nobody arranged for another room to hold the class in, so I had to set up the special computers in the training room with all the normal training computers, maxing out the electrical outlets available. Eor thinks I should turn all all the computers at the same time and see if I can't blow a fuse. ;)
I really feel as though I should have refused to do the class when I realized they were not giving the participants the two weeks notice they should have had. I'm not sure how I could have taken control of the situation, though - I'm nobody. But they made me do the scheduling, even though I'm nobody, so maybe I could have just made a new schedule and shoved it out there when I realized that the okay had not come back on it and the start date was getting closer than three weeks...? I'm never sure when to give up on stuff.
What a fucking shambles. I'm goddamned embarrassed to work for this organization.
Oh, and I'm on this medical diet, so no alcohol or even chocolate for me this week, which didn't help my mood any. :P
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