Be sure to fill out time reporting on whichever 6 different systems your management team is jamming you with. Then when you're done expect a call from your boss asking you to consolidate another report in spreadsheet form. Be on the lookout for this call because it will come out of left field, will be front-burner urgent (your boss's boss is screaming for the data), and will be duplicated effort after syncing the first 6 reporting systems, and will be throwaway work. Finally, do all this with a smile on your face and a "can-do" attitude, and remember to have fun!
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To the poster with the “system”, I’m cracking up. I’ve done same. Haha. And the comment about the fed. You’re right! Oracle has a ton more red tape and incompetence.
The metrics that we are required to report on are utterly unrealistic, and are in conflict with the 40 hour workweek that is expected. Furthermore, some of the fusion reporting tools take so long to load pages that click-heavy reporting is needlessly tedious and time consuming.
A couple of years ago I came up with a partial “fix” for all this - I just make up BS metrics and plug them right in. “Oh yeah, I met with these 8 customers, worked on these 6 projects, and dedicated the correct percentage of my time to admin and training tasks”. Then, I just go do my job, dedicating my time where it’s actually needed. There’s a perverse sense of amusement in this as well - when my manager rolls up the data, adds his spin, and reports up the chain. thus becoming meaningless cr-p all the way up.
Finally, none of this ends up mattering at all given the inevitable reorgs at the end of every fiscal year - ultimately there is no accountability so the garbage predictions based on the garbage data are all forgotten and the status quo simply grinds on.
I worked for a government contractor. I can honestly say that the federal government has got nothing on Oracle in terms of sheer bureaucracy. One might be quite a bit bigger but it is not more confusing, inefficient or redundant than the other.
Ain’t it the truth!