At work. Goddamn it. We're a health promotion entity, taking in all of this state and federal money, and it is staffed by not-ready-for-prime-time players. We have two, yes, TWO goddamned administrative assistants. One to fill out the spreadsheets keeping track of the money and one to answer the phone and move the little thing by our name that says we're out when we forget. Really? We need both of them?
The person in charge of the substance abuse prevention programming funded by the state. That person should have a degree in public policy, health policy, something like that, right? Masters in music. Music. I have no doubt she is an accomplished pianist, but how the fuck does that make you ready to promote positive policies to keep kids off drugs? (actually she is really nice, but woefully unequipped for the job)
And then there is the director who I've moaned about before. He's a fucking career student. He's working on his 3rd Master's degree, he did a bunch of PhD work but didn't have the follow through to do the dissertation, he fully admits he doesn't understand half the shit this agency is supposed to be doing, and he's fucking in charge? He wasted a bunch of money to pay some artist to redo our logo and they're all shit, so we're stuck with the same goddamned logo, which WAS FUCKING FINE AND EVERYBODY LIKED IT EXCEPT FOR ONE IDIOT WHO IS A FUCKING IDIOT SO WHY THE GODDAMN FUCK ARE WE WASTING MONEY BECAUSE OF WHAT HE SAID?
I'm just happy I'm in the position I'm in. While I'm housed in this agency, 100% of my time is devoted to coordinating the substance abuse prevention under this federal grant, whose director is in the school system. So most of the time I don't have to deal with these weirdos as much as I might. All I know, is when the 4 years are up, and if these same people are still around, (especially Director Pachouli), I'm the fuck out of here.
I mean fuck, there are competent people out there looking for jobs. Competent directors looking for jobs. Can I fucking get one of them to answer to please?
Damn. That sucks, Richter. :sad:
Sucks worse for the kids, too, maybe.
It sure does Suu.
:lulz:
Sorry, but that was priceless.
Yeah, definitely made me lol.
So has this place been run in much the same manner for a while or is this a relatively new setup that either isn't working out or just hasn't found its feet yet?
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 02, 2010, 02:57:04 AM
I mean fuck, there are competent people out there looking for jobs. Competent directors looking for jobs. Can I fucking get one of them to answer to please?
Go looking for them. Tell them you like how they run things and you would like an opportunity to work with them.
Well, I actually know their former Director and have worked with her before. She was top notch. Actually, it's kind of funny because I first worked with her shortly after I was hired at the former agency and when she discovered I lived here she said I should be working with her. Unfortunately, it was almost 4 years later and after she left and replaced with Mr. Overbite the Bearded. (I'm being too harsh probably).
I really, really want to ask someone how the fuck he got hired, and I'm getting the sense that there is one staffer in particular who really doesn't like him, but it's too early in the game yet for me to go there. I;ve gotta think they were hard up and he was the only person who applied. He's simply inept. The project director for my grant confided in me that the proposal he wrote to get the funding for my position was awful, but that they cut them a break. Which worked out for me.
How old is your organisation?
I've heard a theory that the older a publicly funded organisation gets, the more it attracts incompotents.
Being married to someone who's always "cleaning house" for a non-profit, health industry "company," yeah, I can see your frustration. I think not-for-profit does attract the societal ballast, rather than the mover-shaper-types that have the bottomline in mind and "giterdone" attitude. My husband's tack in this case is that profitability is actually something not-for-profits need, so cutting the fat and firing the incompetent if they refuse to buck up and lead/work/whateverthefuckthey'rehiredfor is really what he's been hired for.
He not only runs the not-for-profit peds clinic he helped open (while seeing patients), but he's now been hired at his FORMER clinic in the same system that is older and has more departments, but has so much incompetency that it was lagging along in standards, protocols and patient care. He came in and "cleaned house" and was paid a goodly sum to do so--making him patently unpopular, but his peds clinic was the ONLY one out of a an 8-clinic system making money, so...