As I wait for tech partner to resolve issues…
What staggers me about my manager is her inability to see a problem through anyone but her own eyes.
Case in point (BIG case in point): While being in charge of the content redevelopment process she failed to ask key people what they actually needed to have on the site. As a consequence there is material that we have said we are ‘always’ going to have on the site that is now not there – and people are going to start complaining. A lot. To me. Because she is leaving. Thanks a lot.
The thing is that she has done the easy bit (relatively speaking) and re-edited and cleaned up most of the content but not done the hard stuff: getting hands dirty and negotiating what to do with historical or statutory information. And of course the heard bit is now going to be doubly difficult because we are now dealing with a built site.
This just makes me cross – I would prefer to be getting on with developing and tuning the site, but in reality there’s going to be a lot of going backwards…
Sigh.
And you may ask why I didn’t tell her what needed to be done. And the thing is that I did – emailed some templates for logging content, talked about stakeholder meetings at which I would like to be present (never happened) and so on. Maybe I could have pushed more but our ‘working’ relationship is so bad that this would have – almost literally – driven me mad. And she would have got very very nasty for threatening her authority. I could go on. I won’t. I’m trying to be positive.
So – I am happily looking forward to doing the basics right without her around. I only have about 15 hours in her presence and then I am free…
