Re: Military Workplace (was: Acceptance of Mediocre Documentation)

[Lori Olcott <lori_olcott -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Wow!  Good for you pulling that off.

I worked sys admin at an Army hospital for a while.  When
the docs requested data reports, the team would normally
send them off in the original, green screen, wrapped text
format.  I would take the reports, unwrap the text in Word,
export to Excel, and send the docs a report they could
actually read, use and sort to their hearts' content.  The
customers loved it.  My coworkers told me to stop doing it,
because it wasn't specifically listed as a duty in our
contract.  Feh.

Moving from a pro-active, Fortune 500 environment into a
status quo ridden, "you have to crawl before you can walk"
workplace was quite a shock.  It can be hard to gauge how
aggressive you're allowed to be before you start stepping
on toes.

Lori

> I work for the government. Not
> just the government, the *military*. 

> "We need you to evaluate the website and perform QA on
> it. It's a big job, and it'll take a lot of work."
> "Oh, I did that my first week." 
> "...."



		
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