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rosa_heartlily) wrote2020-11-21 09:09 am
rosa_heartlily) wrote2020-11-21 09:09 am
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7 days...
Somehow we've come round to Saturday again - I honestly don't know where the time goes.
I spent this week partly focussing on the new webpage - I'm not building it but I do need to keep an eye on the progress the person who IS building it is making, and provide content - and partly on a random assortment of other job-related stuff. The BAs and I have redesigned the form for assessing whether to go ahead with a project and webpage-colleague helped me to brand it - MSForms in its raw state is really clunky but the branding does help. And I learned a bit about MSWhiteboard, which can be used in MSTeam meetings (seeing a trend here?), which I will make use of for a PIR meeting the week after next.
One of the new BAs is a bit of a magpie, going off and investigating new things then dropping them on the rest of us. Sometimes, it's really helpful - like with the Whiteboard - but sometimes it's much more random. And it takes time to look at the new shiny thing and decide if it's actually something I'll use. Still, I do love their enthusiasm. They're from a contract background where there's a fixed amount of time to get stuff done and haven't adjusted to the much longer timeframes of the university :D
Redoing the form also meant smoothing out the new process but we got there. Now we need to run it past the platform leads... There was a point in a previous iteration where the BAs were 'deciding' on what project ideas went forward but I've persuaded them to go with 'recommending'. I do think the decisions should live with the higher grades - it's what they're paid for!
And, talking of grades, there is definitely momentum growing around my regrade.
AND I haven't heard back from my interview - so much for 'we'll let you know early next week'! I have put in another application, though, for a higher paid post.
Part of me is wondering whether to 'forgive' the university for what happened over the redundancies. I mean, I recognise that all organisations have their bullshit - even if (and, at the moment, it's an enormous IF) I get offered another job, it's unlikely that I won't run into some kind of issue. Do I stop putting energy into applications that ultimately go nowhere? Or is that just giving up?
Well, right now it's time to get up and get this day started!
I spent this week partly focussing on the new webpage - I'm not building it but I do need to keep an eye on the progress the person who IS building it is making, and provide content - and partly on a random assortment of other job-related stuff. The BAs and I have redesigned the form for assessing whether to go ahead with a project and webpage-colleague helped me to brand it - MSForms in its raw state is really clunky but the branding does help. And I learned a bit about MSWhiteboard, which can be used in MSTeam meetings (seeing a trend here?), which I will make use of for a PIR meeting the week after next.
One of the new BAs is a bit of a magpie, going off and investigating new things then dropping them on the rest of us. Sometimes, it's really helpful - like with the Whiteboard - but sometimes it's much more random. And it takes time to look at the new shiny thing and decide if it's actually something I'll use. Still, I do love their enthusiasm. They're from a contract background where there's a fixed amount of time to get stuff done and haven't adjusted to the much longer timeframes of the university :D
Redoing the form also meant smoothing out the new process but we got there. Now we need to run it past the platform leads... There was a point in a previous iteration where the BAs were 'deciding' on what project ideas went forward but I've persuaded them to go with 'recommending'. I do think the decisions should live with the higher grades - it's what they're paid for!
And, talking of grades, there is definitely momentum growing around my regrade.
AND I haven't heard back from my interview - so much for 'we'll let you know early next week'! I have put in another application, though, for a higher paid post.
Part of me is wondering whether to 'forgive' the university for what happened over the redundancies. I mean, I recognise that all organisations have their bullshit - even if (and, at the moment, it's an enormous IF) I get offered another job, it's unlikely that I won't run into some kind of issue. Do I stop putting energy into applications that ultimately go nowhere? Or is that just giving up?
Well, right now it's time to get up and get this day started!