And the music goes round my head...

We've started having daily meetings to catch up on what Production are up to, mainly so that nobody is caught by surprise by any requirements that we weren't aware of. Like starting materials that hadn't been released yet, and documents they need, and so on and so forth. It is, of course, another communications tool.

What Magicke and I have noticed, however, is that the two parties who are under direct pressure to perform are still not really listening to each other. They are, of course, under pressure from two different sources, one internal, the other external. Each party thinks that their pressure source is more important than the other's pressure source.

Personally, I wouldn't mind bashing a couple of heads together, and reminding them that we all work for the same company. That ultimately, we're working towards the profit of one particular entity, and that although customer relations and whatnot are important, the customers are not actually in charge of us (no matter how much they shout and try to bully people), and that perhaps the Managing Director (Mr Big, who is currently taking a direct hand in the management of Production - a necessary task whilst the Grand Visier is away and building up to maternity leave. Especially since the Leprechaun got in fast enough to convince Mr Big that he really, really did not want to be Acting Production Manager) should have the ultimate say in where our priorities lie.

Not that we really want him to take a direct hand in that sort of thing. It shouldn't be necessary.

It doesn't actually affect me personally. But I do find it a little bit amusing, when whoever is representing Production at these meetings (this time) has to say (to the Admin representative) for the umteenth time where their own requirements, goals, and achievements currently sit. I'm just glad it isn't me. I haven't got much patience for that sort of thing.