Wanted, experienced Ninjas.

Things are hotting up at work and the ‘extra’ projects are consuming more and more time.  What with investigations into this, that and other events; resource planning for the new camera project and my usual paternal responsibilities for my staff, time is in very short supply.

Yesterday we had a Financial Management Course.  It was a day-long overview of various aspects of project planning but in the introductory preamble a note was made about the Depot’s Resource Budget.  This intrigued me to asking a question as to how they arrive at it and if it is a dynamic process driven by current and planned future projects.  Silly me.  I should have guessed it is about as dynamic as jetlag and probably just as useful.  Bottom line is, here’s your financial budget allocation and it reflects who (not what) you have on your books in any March.  Planning be buggered.  Suck it up and deal with it with what you have.

So, not being the sharpest tool in the shed, it occurs to me I don’t actually have any staff allocated for the proposed new camera project.  A project I hasten to add should benefit the books by an estimated $8 million in the next financial year.

Or maybe not.

The Big Man, boss at the top responsible for delivering many, many millions of dollars worth of services for Sydney, is a man who I have immense personal respect for.  He’s sincere, engaging, quick to anger but perhaps a little too prone to make promises our resource budget struggles to keep.  He makes these promises to promote this arm of the organisation as a “can do” one and leaves his staff (in which he also appears to have a little bit too much confidence at times) to worry about how to deliver.

There are two layers of management between me and the Big Man. 

Contract assassins ‘r us may be called…..