Friday, September 11, 2009

I seem to have stirred up trouble

I was just trying to help, I swear.

Twice a week we have these meetings that are meant to help the research staff communicate their ideas for new web posts and articles. Unfortunately, they tend to get a little out of control, and very often people come up with ideas or have discussions that are great at the time, but nothing ever comes to fruition, I think in part because people leave and go work on their own stuff, and forget what was discussed. So I thought it would be helpful if I took notes and distributed them to everyone. That way we would all have a reference to what was discussed at the previous meeting and good ideas would be remembered.

But now the people that run the meetings have gotten mad at me for questioning the way they do things (I didn't realize that was what I was doing!), and half the staff wants to completely re-vamp the way the meetings are run, and the other half is pissed that they're now being told what to do, and I'm in the middle of it all.

I seriously thought this would be a simple matter of taking notes. It was supposed to be a quick reference tool, so that we could all be on the same page when we meet. And now I have to order all these books about how to run meetings, and the whole thing has been blown out of proportion.

What am supposed to do now?

1 comment:

  1. Welcome to corporate America, where you have to second guess every good idea/intention, and where your creativity and ingenuity often create nothing but extra work on your desk and numerous headaches.

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