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anyone get frustrated w/ institutional barriers to their job?

groovygrlgroovygrl member
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i feel like i have never worked anywhere with more rules, policies, etc that make it practically impossible to get anything done and more crop up constantly. I'm feeling so frustrated and tired of waiting for people to get back to me constantly, trying to decipher new rules that come across my desk and try to fit all my employer's policies and processes with the policies/guidelines from an external organization that I am also accountable to that has their own set of complicated rules. I feel so defeated many days & have no one to talk/vent to at work about it other than the people in my dept b/c our dept does something completely different than the rest of the organization and no one really gets it....
Anyone else deal with this? Just looking for a little commiseration ;)
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Re: anyone get frustrated w/ institutional barriers to their job?

  • kikimeemeekikimeemee member
    This does seem common the larger a company is. It seems with thousands of employees the "fairness" regulations we have in this country dehabilitates top performers. God forbid we reward someone who is stellar. Small companies don't always have it right, either. Many of them I consult for just don't have any resources to offer rewards. I'm sorry for your frustrations!

    The company I work for gives us yearly bonuses (for which I am grateful) equal to our teammates regardless of performance. So my taking over clients that don't like my peers bc they don't do what they say feels completely not rewarded. More work but same bonus...um... But we "must be 'equal'!!!"
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  • groovygrlgroovygrl member
    Thanks... I just feel like I have gotten to a point where I am afraid to ever ask questions anymore b/c it will result in an email being forwarded to 4 different people, CC"ing 3 more, and then a new policy will be sent our way resulting in more minutia work & holding us up even longer. I think I am at a point where I have had it and need to get out of there, the bureaucracy is just such a hindrance to doing anything I was actually hired to do... but unfortunately can't do it until something that is pending is completed b/c that would really be leaving on a bad note. ugh .
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  • potbellypigpotbellypig member

    Yes. I'm a manager in the provincial government and we are policied/meetinged to death. I've been directed by my manager (who is totally awesome, so of course she's retiring in a few months) to "do now, ask later" for certain small "pilot projects" in order to avoid some of the issues that come from wanting to start a new initiative.

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