When you start looking up Johnny Paycheck lyrics you know you’ve gotten to a bad place at work, yet again. I’ve been doing some interviews with people I work with to find out what they think of our organization’s culture. I have a paper due at the end of the semester on organizational culture.
It’s nice to hear that some folks think we’re back on track and we’re ready to regain our footing. It’s also been nice to hear how the organization was before I got here. I was here about a year before things started going to hell so I don’t know much about how things were because I only experienced one good year. The last few have sucked with layoffs and uncertainty.
Yesterday I talked to the mirror image of my unit and what a different attitude they have. An interesting point came up that when they moved to our present location they immediately unpacked. There are people in my unit who have not unpacked. It’s been about a year. Doesn’t it say quite a bit that we still have packed boxes? I think my cultural analysis paper will be tough to write…I will have to strike a balance between being authentic and resisting the urge to call people out. My bias will have to be held in check.
In other news, I was asked by my professor to talk about my recent presentation and whether or not my partner did his fair share. I was honest but now feel guilty. I hate being in this position and I could have certainly declined to discuss it but as I do not want to work on any more large projects with him (I’ve done it 4 times already), I felt I needed to answer her questions. Still. The guilt.
Can’t it just be Friday, 4:45pm? Then I’ll be out of here for a week.
Dude..that might have been b/c of me. Long time stuck in a hotel coming up with crap to talk about. We got into quite a discussion about him. Sorry if it spilled over. Not ever planning to attend another conference (or share hotel room) with her ever again!! Loonng story that I can’t yet blog about. Grrr…..
No worries…I just feel guilty about “ratting him out” but he didn’t pull his weight and that was the truth.
She has a lot to decide about with him and I wish there was some way for him to step up if he’s able because this semester has been a disappointment for me in seeing how he hasn’t. I don’t know if so many things are going on at home or what–maybe he needs to take a break.