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Original Post Date: 2009-01-22 Time: 17:00:09 Posted By: Jan
At my work, things are unbelievably hectic, and I’m doing my best to settle down and get a handle on the various systems in the new department I work for. So it sadly affects some of my time for the website. Add to that, my Mom has serious problems with her hands and I needed to take her for surgery for carpal tunnel and other issues.
I had a really nice experience at my work. The woman in charge of the Estates Dept and the Fraud Dept was a really miserable person. When I told her I was the new Senior Systems Analyst who would sort out her systems she told me that they’d had someone, a Muslim guy, who had done absolutely nothing for them for a year. She did not want to listen to anything I said or any suggestion I made because, she said, I could be gone tomorrow.
I had to deal with this large division alone because the Portuguese guy and the Black guy who had been seconded with me, both panicked when they saw the work and both resigned! So I carried on alone.
I told the woman that I’m here to stay and I don’t make idle promises. She believed nothing I had to say.
In fact, I was running into nasty white people quite a bit. Everyone was negative and everyone was a skeptic. So I told my bosses that I would set to work on these people and have them eating out of my hands. So one day I suggested to them that if anyone had Excel spread sheet problems I’d look into it. So I helped a white lady and an Indian lady. And my help resulted in them both crowing to management about how much work I’d saved them.
But Vanessa, the head of Fraud and Estates was not convinced.
So I spotted that one of her teams of 20 people really had a serious problem with work allocation. (More on that later, because I must tell you how the blacks and coloureds cheat and crook the system like you can’t believe). Anyhow, I looked at what they were doing and suggested that I write a small system as the solution and we dump the spreadsheet. But I came up with some nifty ideas on how the system, reports, etc would work so that EVERYONE got exactly what they wanted with minimal work on my side.
Due to my work load I could not do it when I wanted to. So Vanessa cheekily told me if I can’t do it, then I must tell her so she finds another solution. I was furious. Anyway, I then thought up an even better plan and did the job in 3 days instead of the week as I’d planned. The results were stunning.
I put the little system in, and they used it.
A very large sophisticated Estates system has to be built for them. I am the lead technical person on the project. They were having daily walk throughs and discussions about the system and I was there to answer questions. A massive new workload caused me to ask them to be excused from the meetings because I’m drowning in work.
The little system I wrote for one of Vanessa’s teams was a huge success. The users love it to bits. In fact, one Afrikaans woman came to me to tell me that she was incredibly impressed with it when the others showed it to her.
But Vanessa herself never said much.
Then today I ran into her in the pause area and we chatted a bit. I told her my plans for her Estates System. And she was just over the moon with my ideas. Then she told me that during their walk-throughs when I wasn’t there, sometimes she’d tell the black Project Manager (who I might add is a black guy who used to irritate me endlessly and is now my FAVOURITE project manager – that’s another story) that she would want certain functions. He would say to her, “But I’m not sure if that can be done”. And Vanessa then said to him, “Put it in, Jan can do ANYTHING!”
So after all these months of struggle with these difficult people, it seems I’ve finally got through to them. Another manager, is one of the most difficult, loud and even nasty Afrikaners I ever met. I actually watched him giving some non-white co-workers of mine a really hard time. One day I got quite cross because he was messing us around a lot. I really felt sorry for the black Project Manager. So when everyone had gone, I confronted this large, tall Afrikaner fellow and had a good one on one discussion with him. I told him that he couldn’t change the rules willy nilly and we had processes to follow for good reasons. From that day onwards, he trod more carefully around me, and now we’re friends. He is an extremely difficult man, but finally he respects me.
As for the black Project Manager who is my favourite, I must tell you more about him. When I first worked with him 2 years ago, he was one of these young, cocky blacks who was very forward. He would come and plant himself on my desk and lean over me, etc. I really did not like his manner back then. And on the projects he and I worked on in recent months, he took serious beatings from all sides, from Indians, from Whites, etc. And people lied to him too. One Indian guy talked a lot of technical nonsense and lied to him. Myself and the black guy nearly had a fight over the junk he was believing. But in the end, when the dust cleared, the black guy realised that I’d been telling him the truth. And when he was under pressure and taking a beating, he really made serious efforts to try harder, which I appreciated. I also defended him when he was right. In the end, this cocky young black guy, now treats me with great respect, and he hangs on every word I say because he knows I don’t lie.
I’ve actually made it a point not even to lie about the smallest of things. One’s credibility is really all you have. And mine works for me big time.
Its been really hard resettling myself into a new department and working on many systems with many new people and trying to win them over. Its been really tough. But I was so pleased to see that this woman who’d irked me so much, has finally mellowed completely and now she too finally has faith in me.
It wasn’t easy, but its nice to get that warm feeling finally that people appreciate you and that you helped them and they remember it. It makes all the struggle worthwhile. And it pleases me that I managed to win over co-workers and difficult, negative customers. I like working in a happy environment. But as with all things, it takes effort to get there.