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feel free to go nuts if that's your vision
Friday, June 30 2017
Routines in the remote workplace were a bit more normal today, though I've yet to be able to return to the projects I'd been working on. Aware that there is only really one frontend developer and that she has to field almost all the interactions with other departments has me feeling like my usual tasks are unimportant. At some point in the day, I was in agreement with Dan that those in "the backend" should help Ni with a very large frontend project.
Today was also the day of the biweekly all-hands Organizational meeting, during which Ni read a statement mostly written by me intended to convey the new reality, which I expressed as one of openness and collaboration. I'd also designed the "slide" (a visual image to display to the others in The Organization as Ni talked), which featured Ni's face Photoshopped onto a childlike body walking casually away from a massive explosion, the only caption being a new email address for people in the other departments to send email to, a token of the IT's new culture of openness.
Of all the people in IT, the person most delighted with the new state of affairs appears to be Dan. He seems to want to do a lot of everything. I see no reason to discourage this, even to the extent that it seems to be intruding on things I (or someone else) might prefer to do myself/his-or-herself. As long as Dan is happy, I have a feeling our department will meet the needs placed upon it. At some point today I told Dan, "feel free to go nuts if that's your vision." It isn't even just that he wants to do the things that are fun (like taking care of the low-hanging fruit of the task management system). As I've already indicated, his desire to help Ni with boring frontend projects has forced me to step up and agree to help out there too. That's the thing about the new culture we've created: peer pressure now presses people to do more, whereas the old culture created peer pressure for doing less. That's a good thing, at least for now. Eventually it might be exhausting. I'm kind of exhausted already just looking at all the shit Ni is expected to do.
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