Great Big Bundles of Crap

Further to the earlier post, this week has really not been good.

There’s been a lot of changes over the last month or so at work, and this week hasn’t been any different. Unfortunately, it’s also left me feeling deeply demotivated and flat, which has made it hard for me to get going on anything all week.

At the moment no-one seems to know quite what’s going on. Simon and myself have been “re-tasked” (their phrase, not mine) from doing the social network stuff I’ve been doing since June, and Simon’s been doing since October, because now it’s no longer a high priority. The fact that the company was supposed to be launching a product backed up by a website community is now irrelevant – the product has taken a retrograde step to fix older buggier code and “reassure” the user community that the product is good. Which, frankly, at the moment it isn’t. But the social network website is now low priority in comparison to the e-commerce side that’s run by our American colleagues. (And I’m using that word in its loosest possible context)

So yes, at the moment that’s nine months of my work being reduced to low man on the totem, and we’re all left to wait and see what’ll happen. The new CEO is away on holiday for another two weeks, and in that time a lot of changes seem to be happening, assumedly with his acceptance/blessing. We’ll see what develops from all this, but it has to be said that right now, happy is not a word being used to describe this workplace…