Now this team is irritating - they are no good help at all
By chiyochan
@chiyosan (30186)
Philippines
January 4, 2013 12:47am CST
Our company has hired consultants who are supposed to help us with our internal jobs, with 3 weeks of continuos meetings and discussions - they seemed too close minded as to what they want, and what they can provide rather than be open as to what we need! How come they are in this position to demand that our team always go with their design rather than be flexible and meet us halfway, and see what our company and processes NEED.
Discussions have been going in and out and on and off but nothing has been settled yet and they are supposed to help us check the best things, in this day and age of computers and automation most of what they want us to do are manual stuffs. hahaha (sarcastic tone) Now how are we to trust they can help us deliver the organizational demands with this kind of help we are getting?!! Its really been too much of a thing to think about now hay I am always just close to walking out everytime!
Have you even been to such that a lot has not been settled after so many things and time wasted at work? Its so frustrating, right?
5 responses
@Cutie18f (9546)
• Philippines
4 Jan 13
Are you talking about accrediting groups like the ISO? Don't bother. Yes, this group is trapped in the old ways. There is a lot of paper trail in the system they impose and the company is paying them big to make you do this. They want everyone to be paranoid. There is no freedom for creative effort in their system. Better forget about it.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
13 Jan 13
Oh no. we are not even there yet. i am sure there was another campaign for that. =) i am just not sure yet. i do agree with you, there are a lot of documentations that goes along... but they haven't read any of it because they don't know a single right answer to every inquiry we have. we as clients have the right to demand. they aare not our audit, they are the consultants who should know better!!!
@vernaC (1491)
• Romania
4 Jan 13
I've been to this road before and I'm glad I'm out! I know these people, they only think they are right but actually they don't know much of the actual process. But since they are called experts, why not follow them first and if it fails, it's their fault, then you can begin again and this time you have learned more.
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@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
13 Jan 13
hehe oh it was good you are out of the stress. but what we were asking is for them to understand us. we bought a software and they are supposed to be our partners in demanding to the software developer what we need. but they are the ones that was telling us it needs more money for what we want, but they suggested that company for God's sake. now its just all lost... no more hopes... =(
@IntrovertShy (2780)
• Marikina, Philippines
4 Jan 13
That is so hard. The consultants maybe have this high expectations to the group. That consultants might be too much idealists to his team and if a person is too much idealists, well, it doesn't look good to the team members. Idealists means a person that has too much high expectation. For example, we have ideal partner. If I am Idealists, I expect my partner to be good, high IQ of 200 and so on while in real life, it does not exist.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
13 Jan 13
haha it is really hard. we have started out okay but all of the items that was informed to them that we need are not even with in the scope every move they would tell our lead that it would entail cost and more cost. we are the miling cow.
internal analysts would have done a better job than them.
@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
5 Jan 13
I understand where it is coming from. Some people are not open to changes. We might feel irritated, since we don't see any better proposition. Give them more time I assume they are still on the process of analyzing the situation. When they are ready, good cards of ideas will be seen.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
13 Jan 13
Time is not in our hands right now shavkat. we too needed that. but they should have been a partner in all these and should have come in at its best. i think there were a lot of things not discussed, a lot left out and a lot of confusion is now setting in.. more and more each day... there were no resolved items. we started out last month with a hdanful of action points and they haven't returned a single on closed since then and its going to be two months now.
@ZoeJoy (1392)
• United States
4 Jan 13
The consultants are doing their job. They are getting paid. They probably think they know it all. After all, they are the experts. You and your co-workers need their help and consulting. They are NOT going to be flexible. They know it all. They are hired to help you, not listen to you. You are to listen to them. They have NOT been hired to listen to you.
In other words, it will indeed be a waste of time and a waste of money spend by your company. If a company is not going to listen from within, from their own employees, and only from outside 'experts' then they really don't know what is going on from within their company. If you want to keep your job, you are just going to have to 'play' along. No point getting frustrated over this.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
13 Jan 13
we have done pre-works as a group before they did come int the picture. they are consultants but are not open to what we have as business processes. they come in and suggest things - they are supposed to read and match the requirements we have and improve and suggest and not impose. that i know is what they have to do. the truth is, we all have noticed they do not know how our business is run and how it goes but they act as if they know everything that they are presenting to us - a lot of them does not make sense at all.
the thing is we are trying to just play along but are worried for he launch of our product and campaigns because we are no where near the conclusion of everything.
