Work. Pah.
was posted on 02 Nov 06 at 4:04pm. it has been filed under musings and tagged with life, motivation, work.
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I think I know why i’ve been so detached / bored / unenthusiastic at work just lately, the problem is that there’s no real sense of team work in my job. We all get given a unique job, and then just get on with the work in isolation. It’s a really unhealthy way to work and inevitably leads to people becoming unmotivated.
I’m sure there’s some valid business reason or some sort of financial excuse for this way of working (it does after all make sense, why spend 2 peoples time on 1 job when you can spend 2 peoples time on 2 jobs ) but even so, it just doesn’t feel right. A lot of the time it feels like we’re working in a factory. It’s boring and repetitive, like so:
- Job comes in
- Someone gets briefed
- That person works on that job, alone until it’s finished.
- Rinse
- Repeat
Working in this way generally means that on a job per job basis people’s time is split between 2 or 3 different disciplines, take for example my recent rails project; I have a certain amount of time in which to do it, but that time is taken up (so far) with design work in photoshop. It’s not that I’m useless in photoshop or anything, it’s just not where my focus needs to be on this project. Ideally I would have got my rough ideas down in photoshop and then given those to Ian to do his magic with, freeing me up to work on more important things such as coding.
Another huge problem is lack of man power, we have 2 people full time in our little internet team. 2 people, thats less than piss poor, it’s fucking shit. We easily have enough work to keep 3 or 4 people going, at the very least another person would help take away all the amend based jobs from myself and Ian, oh yeah where I work we have to deal with various amends and updates to existing sites, as well as tackle our own huge projects (which we’re working on solo remember) we don’t have a junior that can just deal with these little annoyances.
It’s all basically very demotivating to me and I just can’t help but wonder what shade of green the grass is on the other side. Maybe I should find out?