22nd March 2006, 02:50 AM
If there are/were people moaning at a unit at least it means the staff are at least acknowledging problems and vocalising, which is at least at starting point. Vocalising the same moans up the management chain would be the next move, as Toby quite rightly suggests.
Last place I worked, however, there was hardly a moan to be heard anywhere. Not that all was rosy - far from it - but it seemed that all the longer serving staff had completely resigned themselves to things being 'that way' and had buried their heads firmly in the sand as far as pursuing any chance of change was concerned. I noticed a few things in post-ex and general office admin that could be done differently or more efficiently but when I put my ideas to my supervisors I hit a brick wall. It seemed that having new ideas was seen as a 'bad thing' as it would be perceived by management to be a criticism of the way they ran their company. That would not go down well at all and was likely to lead to bad moods and stropiness which everyone wanted to avoid. In that climate I seriously doubted that anything I could do or say would make a difference.
Last place I worked, however, there was hardly a moan to be heard anywhere. Not that all was rosy - far from it - but it seemed that all the longer serving staff had completely resigned themselves to things being 'that way' and had buried their heads firmly in the sand as far as pursuing any chance of change was concerned. I noticed a few things in post-ex and general office admin that could be done differently or more efficiently but when I put my ideas to my supervisors I hit a brick wall. It seemed that having new ideas was seen as a 'bad thing' as it would be perceived by management to be a criticism of the way they ran their company. That would not go down well at all and was likely to lead to bad moods and stropiness which everyone wanted to avoid. In that climate I seriously doubted that anything I could do or say would make a difference.