The picture to the right explains this week...so yea...
So over the past couple of days I've been working on something(solution forum for imaging engineers) for the company I work for to use and to make things more efficient. The company has apparently promised this to its engineers in the past but has never "got around" to it. The "thing" they have set up now works, but is very outdated, ugly, very cluttered with other department's problems, and most importantly...is extremely unorganized. Over the years, I've been told by every employer at every job to think creatively and bring ideas up to the company to try out. So what did I do, I created the forum(online discussion board usually for specific subjects that has secure login, especially for sensitive or private postings) in a matter of an hour or so. I tested it out with various dummy accounts, and made it to where only company employees can access. It is organized, each person's account has contact information, an area that they can post their specific equipment strengths in, and most importantly, everything is categorized by equipment and OEM. WOW...but...
...It wasn't even 3 hours after the project was online and working that I received a two "bashing" emails from two people(non engineers) about how what I was doing was bad or wrong...mind you they had no clue what was going on and had not even checked out the forum themselves. I think they felt a little threatened because I do not work in the information systems department and am not supposed to create stuff like this, even though it is that simple using the internet. If that wasn't enough, I was suspended from future postings about the new promised "idea," even though they promised this forum years ago. Will it work better than what they now? Yes. Do they know that? Apparently that doesn't matter to them. Creative thinking is looked on as good from what they say, but acting on those thoughts is bad. An even bigger slap to the face was the phone call from a person(who I know personally from school) back at the Charlotte office who thought the project was a "personal advertisement" thing(again, he was clueless of what was going on). Is this a personal thing? NO! It's work. Creating this was not fun. Overall, it shows me how bad the system works. People being in an industry for years and years doesn't prove they know the most efficient way to handle problem solving.
So over the past couple of days I've been working on something(solution forum for imaging engineers) for the company I work for to use and to make things more efficient. The company has apparently promised this to its engineers in the past but has never "got around" to it. The "thing" they have set up now works, but is very outdated, ugly, very cluttered with other department's problems, and most importantly...is extremely unorganized. Over the years, I've been told by every employer at every job to think creatively and bring ideas up to the company to try out. So what did I do, I created the forum(online discussion board usually for specific subjects that has secure login, especially for sensitive or private postings) in a matter of an hour or so. I tested it out with various dummy accounts, and made it to where only company employees can access. It is organized, each person's account has contact information, an area that they can post their specific equipment strengths in, and most importantly, everything is categorized by equipment and OEM. WOW...but......It wasn't even 3 hours after the project was online and working that I received a two "bashing" emails from two people(non engineers) about how what I was doing was bad or wrong...mind you they had no clue what was going on and had not even checked out the forum themselves. I think they felt a little threatened because I do not work in the information systems department and am not supposed to create stuff like this, even though it is that simple using the internet. If that wasn't enough, I was suspended from future postings about the new promised "idea," even though they promised this forum years ago. Will it work better than what they now? Yes. Do they know that? Apparently that doesn't matter to them. Creative thinking is looked on as good from what they say, but acting on those thoughts is bad. An even bigger slap to the face was the phone call from a person(who I know personally from school) back at the Charlotte office who thought the project was a "personal advertisement" thing(again, he was clueless of what was going on). Is this a personal thing? NO! It's work. Creating this was not fun. Overall, it shows me how bad the system works. People being in an industry for years and years doesn't prove they know the most efficient way to handle problem solving.
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Update: other ISEs are liking the idea, so now I just have to get the word out somehow or let it just take effect and hopefully push through.
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