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Originally Posted by DoubleF
I agree. But there are reasons why it isn't changed at times.
Most times it's gate kept by someone who is like, "It's been fine all these years, no need to change it." So they don't think it's crappy. Or they know it's annoying and dumb, but they don't know what to change it to and have no time to figure out what it should be changed to and don't want to pay a lawyer (unnecessary) in advising how to change it. They want someone to do it for them or something.
Some find out their policies are wholly undocumented and they can just change how they want to do things. Some find out they've been violating policies for years.
It's honestly not as hard to fix as some people make it out to be but also not as easy to fix and change as some others are making it out to be.
Plus it's often not in any job descriptions, everyone deems it not their job and thus it gets orphaned and every has to stick with it because policies and procedures are a little bit like communism. Everyone wants a say, no one wants any responsibility for doing it right.
Again though, my point was that bad rules doesn't mean the ownership or people who gate keep the rules are #######s by default.
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I have found when working for different companies that the biggest resistance to change, is fear of change. People are inherently scared of change and I get it but it gets frustrating sometimes to see something brought forward that would make life easier in a company and get shot down because it would involve a new process and that is scary.
One example is that in another company vacations were handled by emailing the department head and requesting it. All fine and not bad, but there were many times where they would not keep track it the vacations and would leave their team shorthanded.
I proposed and made a simple application in SharePoint where the employee put in their request and it would then email the department head for approval. If there were already a specified number of people away that day it would highlight it in the request. Once granted it added it to a group calendar so everyone could see when people were away. No no, to many steps and people don't like filling out forms blah blah blah.
This is one of the big reasons that I like where I am now. They know things cannot stay the same and are willing to try things out to make people more efficient, and then if something is not working, turf it.
I have worked here for 4 years now and the amount of new things I have seen come in out paces all the other places I have worked combined.