The new guy at work

[jdbailey1206]

Don't you guys love it when a new guy is hired into where you work but no one can tell you exactly what he does.  We got a guy like this at the beginning of the year and his job title is Project Director - Operations.  And the funny thing is he's telling our guys in the field he is there to run the office but he is telling us in the office he is there to run the field operations.  And I think the boss just hired him to give him a job.  I feel like I'm in the middle of Office Space.  Gotta love change. 

[jennifer]

    You should tell him Jennifer needs  2 giant boxes of paper brought to the copy room. (Giggle, Snort).

[jennifer]

   OH, Oh..... Tell him he"s been selected for random drug testing after lunch, go report to Bobs office.

[Vigo]

We got about a half dozen of those people. They are "directors", yet don't have a single employee or program under them. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- seems to spew from their mouths.

"So what do you do?"

"I'm the Director of Insight and Strategy"

"Soooo.....what does that entail?"

"Preparing the company to be positioned for it's future image"

"How do you do that?"

"By maintaining both an introspective and outward vision of the company's opportunities. It is both very technical and prodigiously inferential."

"Glad you can do that on schedule of 3 days a week with 5 hour days. Enjoy your round of golf this afternoon."

[Le Chuck]

    You should tell him Jennifer needs  2 giant boxes of paper brought to the copy room. (Giggle, Snort).

[Generic Eric]

I think the boss just hired him to give him a job.  I feel like I'm in the middle of Office Space.  Gotta love change.

You are being restructured.  Trust no one. 

[jennifer]

I think the boss just hired him to give him a job.  I feel like I'm in the middle of Office Space.  Gotta love change.

You are being restructured.  Trust no one.

I am actually frightened, I feel as if Jenn should put on her giant sunglasses and hide in the ladies room awhile.

[pbj]

I don't know... I got hired into a weird situation once.  Seemed very straight forward on paper and in the interviews, I showed up and there was nothing to do.  Turned out they had an employee they wanted snooped on but she figured it out pretty quick and threw up the walls (and started disappearing for days at a time).  When it came time to involve HR, they immediately circled the wagons and how dare I suggest I had been misled. 

I'm thankful I saw it coming and had already been planning my exit but the whole experience was surreal.  Took me months to wrap my head around it, I imagine they have no idea how financially devastating that endeavor turned out to be, and they're still regularly stalking me on LinkedIn.

So sometimes it's not ALWAYS the clown they hired.

 

[Vigo]

So sometimes it's not ALWAYS the clown they hired.

 

Yep, someone had to hire them for SOME reason. In my office I think it is the big bosses trying to build an empire. The people hired are just trying to sound relevant to keep their job sharpening pencils.

[jdbailey1206]

I 99% sure that he was hired to be in control of the Project Managers.  (That is what I do.)  But like usual that was found out by asking others what is going on.  If you come into a new job I would think it would be smart, if it was me, to introduce myself to who I am managing and kind give a run down of what I want to accomplish.  A meet and greet if you will.  Not just come in and start working and expect everyone to know why I am there.  I know RAH! RAH! meetings are usually redundant but sometimes they are relevant.

I also think he was hired so the owner could step back and relinquish some of what he needs to be done to this guy.  So instead of the owner reporting to four guys he just has to get info from one.  Which is smart.  But let everyone know.  But like usual it turns into "You should have known.  You are stupid for not knowing" situation.  Love my job.   

[yotsuya]

I 99% sure that he was hired to be in control of the Project Managers.  (That is what I do.)  But like usual that was found out by asking others what is going on.  If you come into a new job I would think it would be smart, if it was me, to introduce myself to who I am managing and kind give a run down of what I want to accomplish.  A meet and greet if you will.  Not just come in and start working and expect everyone to know why I am there.  I know RAH! RAH! meetings are usually redundant but sometimes they are relevant.

I also think he was hired so the owner could step back and relinquish some of what he needs to be done to this guy.  So instead of the owner reporting to four guys he just has to get info from one.  Which is smart.  But let everyone know.  But like usual it turns into "You should have known.  You are stupid for not knowing" situation.  Love my job.   

Find out who he's related to. 

[BadMouth]

This makes me tempted to just walk into a place and pretend to be 2 levels higher than everyone I cross paths with.
Where I work is too small to pull this off.

I used to work for a company with a German parent company.  Word was that it was very hard to be promoted past someone with more seniority over there.
So whoever they wanted to promote would be transferred to the U.S. for a while, promoted to a higher position, them moved back to Germany at the higher position.
Some of them were good.  A lot of them were just killing time and didn't care about anything here.