on a somewhat less cheerful note...
Dec. 21st, 2006 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerWe're having problems with one of our team at work who just isn't managing to keep up with their work. Being a semi-manager now, this is partly my responsibility. I and our PM (program manager) sat down withthe person yesterday and laid down the law: here's a plan for helping you do your work better, and we will help you to do so where we can, but if you can't show some improvement within the next 30 days, we will have to Take Steps.
So, today 4 more errors the person has committed showed up. The PM and I discussed it, and I rolled up my sleeves and tried to explain to the miscreant what they had done wrong and how they needed to fix it. They started insisting that they hadn't done *anything* wrong, that it was all a mistake, and I was tempted to say "To commit one such error may be regarded as a misfortune, but to commit nearly half a dozen looks like carelessness." Since I was fairly sure the reference would go flying high in the aether, I didn't bother, but proceeded to produce a detailed page of description of how and in what manner they had made the mistakes in question and exactly how I had had to spend four hours of my day tracking down the mistakes and figuring out how to fix them, so would they please correct them now? I also felt like saying "continuing to argue further about this will be mistake #6", but I thought I would just leave that for the moment.
So, today 4 more errors the person has committed showed up. The PM and I discussed it, and I rolled up my sleeves and tried to explain to the miscreant what they had done wrong and how they needed to fix it. They started insisting that they hadn't done *anything* wrong, that it was all a mistake, and I was tempted to say "To commit one such error may be regarded as a misfortune, but to commit nearly half a dozen looks like carelessness." Since I was fairly sure the reference would go flying high in the aether, I didn't bother, but proceeded to produce a detailed page of description of how and in what manner they had made the mistakes in question and exactly how I had had to spend four hours of my day tracking down the mistakes and figuring out how to fix them, so would they please correct them now? I also felt like saying "continuing to argue further about this will be mistake #6", but I thought I would just leave that for the moment.
