Hi, I am working in a small-med offshore financial co. so 100s of staff, but Co. income in upper mid range 100s Millions GBP.
After 25years at Insurance Giants - 100,000+ staff - I am struggling to deal with the laid back, muddle through attitude here.
Example - daily batch run is manually scheduled on a Rota basis by 9-5 staff not evening shift. If the rota person is ill we depend on someone else noticing that the normal emails requesting patches and announcing the imminent online shutdown have not gone out.
This is a far cry from automated ops and auto texts by exception to people on standby that I am used to.
When I query the procedures I'm met by a mixture of incomprehension and acceptance of 'the way things are here'. This is compounded by the fact that I have only been here 8months and my immediate colleagues have been here at least 2 years.
So question is - anyone else found themselves the only person agitating for change to more formal procedures when everyone else is seemingly content to muddle through?
Is it futile to try to change things if you are the only one who seems to value rigour and precision and are trying to take everyone else out of their comfort zone?
In case you are wondering, yes about 1-2 times a year the ball is dropped in a major way and some poor saps have to work 36 hours straight to put things right.
After 25years at Insurance Giants - 100,000+ staff - I am struggling to deal with the laid back, muddle through attitude here.
Example - daily batch run is manually scheduled on a Rota basis by 9-5 staff not evening shift. If the rota person is ill we depend on someone else noticing that the normal emails requesting patches and announcing the imminent online shutdown have not gone out.
This is a far cry from automated ops and auto texts by exception to people on standby that I am used to.
When I query the procedures I'm met by a mixture of incomprehension and acceptance of 'the way things are here'. This is compounded by the fact that I have only been here 8months and my immediate colleagues have been here at least 2 years.
So question is - anyone else found themselves the only person agitating for change to more formal procedures when everyone else is seemingly content to muddle through?
Is it futile to try to change things if you are the only one who seems to value rigour and precision and are trying to take everyone else out of their comfort zone?
In case you are wondering, yes about 1-2 times a year the ball is dropped in a major way and some poor saps have to work 36 hours straight to put things right.
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