[Jobs]: Should I stay or should I go?

[DinerDave]

MAVIC,
My mindset is to always keep your eyes and ears open to new
opportunities. In your case, don't burn bridges. Keep your standards
up, and let your work ethic shine. It may take a few weeks, months, or
(I hope not) years to find something else.
Do you have former bosses or colleagues that you can tap into for
leads or opportunities? Sometimes you find connections in unlikely places.
Years ago, I managed a restaurant for a large chain that I really enjoyed,
and was there 10 years. The company did major upper mgt. shuffling
and streamlining to save costs. At one point I went 2 and 1/2 yrs with out
A review as no upper mgt were there long enough in one position to
know us enough to do the review. My direct market mgr left the company
as his carreer path was being changed in a way he did not like.
So then a few months later, this market mgr called me up and said,
"Dave, I know what you can do, and I want you to come over here and
do it for me here" We talked and I came on board. That was 9 years
ago, and we still are with the same company and happy.
The point I'm making, MAVIC, is keep your head up, do the best job you
can look for alternatives at the same time. Ops may be in unlikely places.

Good luck,

Dave

[August West]

Convince them to do an organizational culture assessment, it doesn't sound like they have before. It sounds like the culture needs to be nudged into alignment. Break out the managerial assessment from the non-managerial assessment. If you can, break out the executives from everyone else. Find the significant misalignments and find ways to change them. Productivity and employee satisfaction will rise.

[ztirffritz]

I recently took a different position within my company after suffering in IT for 10+ years. I was hoping and praying for change, but things just kept getting worse. I like doing IT work, but not at the stress/pay level my company had me at.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

davester wrote:
I haven't noticed whether or not you quit things. I have noticed that you tend to go against the majority opinion of those on the forum though

Can confirm.

[DP]

It seems to me you've made up your mind already. However, could you insert yourself into a position of influence? If other parts of the job work well for you, perhaps there's a challenge in there for you!

[JoeM]

Don't over analyze. It's really very simple:
If you want to stay: stay
If you want to go: go
But whatever you do, if you do decide to leave: don't, until you have a new job to go to.

[mattkime]

Have you had a direct and honest conversation with anyone about this?

[Dennis S]

Do you know about the coin flip trick? Flip a coin - heads I stay, tails I go. While the coin is in the air, your brain will say either "Please be heads or please be tails."

Maybe.

[Stephanie]

I think I would have to know more details in order to give an opinion. A personnel issue? What kind of project managers are involved in this project. Has the organization tried to adopt any sort of framework - like ITIL (just an example)?

I work for an organization that is an end user of software from a specific software company that seems to have similar issues. W/o even knowing the ins & outs of their structure, I can tell 2 things:
1. They NEED something like ITIL because it is clear they don't have a handle on their business processes, nor do they have a handle on communication/coordination/cooperation between their divisions.
2. They have programmers, and it's obvious that they don't have ANYONE that specializes in design (more specifically, UI design). Combined with that, it's obvious that they don't know the first thing about usability.

[decay]

you're M A V I C.

(was there a poll?)