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oh. so that's why I'm so frustrated.
Mar. 10th, 2006 12:21 pmAt the end of January, I started keeping track of the projects I needed to do at work, and what the status of each was. My boss doesn't like to micromanage, so he wasn't breathing down my neck asking about every little thing. That meant people from other departments would come ask him how X was going, and he'd have no clue unless he came looking for me to tell him I was busy with crisis Y and wouldn't have time to work on X again for weeks. The central listing is supposed to help that, make both me and my boss feel more in control of what needs to be juggled.
There are now 59 items on the list. One thing is "complete." I finished it this morning. ONE. These are not items on the order of "send email to so-and-so about that," which reasonable people expect to do lots of in a day. An item like "shelf life testing of [product]" is supposed to take a few hours a week for a long time. Even something like "new procedure for manufacturing [product]" includes testing a couple of possible procedures, writing up the one that works best, teaching it to the technicians, getting the document in the official archive of such things, and arranging for routine purchase of necessary tools and parts. So it's more time-consuming than it looks.
But still. 18 projects are active or waiting for something short-term. (Like the 3 manufacturing procedures that are only written, not in the official archive yet. So nobody can use them or refer to them.) 40 more projects are hanging over my head as things I know I should get started on soon.
I can't multi-task well enough for this. And I don't feel like I'm making enough progress to justify setting everything else aside and focusing on one thing at a time. It's just awful.
There are now 59 items on the list. One thing is "complete." I finished it this morning. ONE. These are not items on the order of "send email to so-and-so about that," which reasonable people expect to do lots of in a day. An item like "shelf life testing of [product]" is supposed to take a few hours a week for a long time. Even something like "new procedure for manufacturing [product]" includes testing a couple of possible procedures, writing up the one that works best, teaching it to the technicians, getting the document in the official archive of such things, and arranging for routine purchase of necessary tools and parts. So it's more time-consuming than it looks.
But still. 18 projects are active or waiting for something short-term. (Like the 3 manufacturing procedures that are only written, not in the official archive yet. So nobody can use them or refer to them.) 40 more projects are hanging over my head as things I know I should get started on soon.
I can't multi-task well enough for this. And I don't feel like I'm making enough progress to justify setting everything else aside and focusing on one thing at a time. It's just awful.
