Welcome to SD-6

[rhienelleth]

I am as of this moment nicknaming my place of work "SD-6". Why? Because I do work for a division of the federal government (formerly referred to in this journal as EGA, ie Evil Gov't Agency), which was just been absorbed into another division of the federal government, and just this morning we had a lovely little meeting about all the things that are going to change in the coming months, which number as follows:

1. all inter-company e-mails must be sent with a letterhead and be routed through your superviser per their approval before being sent on. Every single one. What a waste of freaking time and resources. This is to make sure everything looks professional and no one is saying anything they shouldn't. As an example, so you know how serious this is, our admin in charge of all records sent out a draft of a letter to one of the bigwigs in the new division. His secretary e-mailed her back and started the e-mail with "first of all, the date needs to be one line higher on the page..." It went downhill from there.

2. all e-mails, business and personal, will be monitored for various key words just in case one of us is a terrorist. I kid you not.

3. all internet activity will be monitored. Theoretically, they already are, but no one cares around here...yet. Rumor has it that the division we've been absorbed into does their timesheet by when you log on in the morning, and when you turn your computer off at night. And they know exactly where you are online at all times. *panics* What am I going to do without my LJ time?!

4. all records will now be associated with our new division's already established record keeping practices...even though they are outdated and not as good as our current method. This affects me HUGELY. Record keeping is kind of what I do, except it's all electronic. Or was. Not anymore.

5. Redundacy, redundancy, redundancy. All the new policies are going to have us doing things three different times in three different ways before we can actually get anything done. I am thoroughly depressed by this.

I need a new job. A different job, working somewhere that overpays me just as much as this one, but without the Alliance running things. Ugh.

Comments

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

My old job took the Internet monitoring a step further by also having most people unable to access any non-company related sites, and heavily filtering those who could get to non-company sites. Some groups within the company could not even send emails. If they need to send an email, they had to talk to their supervisor (yet they could muck around with customer accounds. WTF?).

We didn't have 1), at least not at my level, but among the execs... who knows ;)

(And we were all grossy underpaid :D I'm glad I don't work there anymore. :D)

[kistha.livejournal.com]

Sorry your work is sucky, and I too am often stunned by the rampant stupidity of large corporations and the government. For example I had to fill out a Homeland Security thing in order to be added to my husband's safety deposit box.

And no, I'm not a terrorist, but thanks for asking.

In other news, the excellent Bones episode should be heading your way in the mail tomorrow.