There is something to be said for keeping your mouth shut.
At work they are attempting to implement a web-based scheduling system to track projects through the shop. The problem is that the system they are going to use is cumbersome and not user-friendly. It will actually complicate things rather than streamline them. However, the system was already purchased before the taskforce was assembled, resulting in more of a band-aid approach implementation. “How can we make this less awful?”
Shooting the breeze with the EVP, Creative Director, I made mention of my frustrations with the new system. I also mentioned that I implemented a similar system at my previous agency. This revelation promptly got me invited to - rather required at - a meeting to discuss the ’system’ and how to streamline implementation in the Chicago office. The solution, I am told, cannot be ‘don’t do it’ or ‘purchase another system’. What is the point? We are going to have a meeting to discuss how to implement a system that won’t work for us in the best way possible. And it will be two hours. And there will be lunch, but I bet anything that Kevin forgot to alert Culinary so there will not be lunch for me.
I probably should have just kept my mouth shut.