DaveH
Striker
It only takes one or two people in an office to drag it down. I was in a IT technical team in a previous job and we were given an admin woman, mainly because she had spent her way working round various teams pissing them all off until they got to the point they could not work with her and she was moved on.
All day it was either her telling us how rich she was (she was not), or moaning about every single aspect of her job. Her main job was to manage user accounts and you would think it was the most complicated thing ever. All day moaning about this loudly, moaning about that, everything was a nightmare, anger, swearing. It was hard to concentrate. She didn't work Fridays and it was a much better day in the office.
She decided to do a longer holiday one year of 3 or 4 weeks, so her account duties got put onto a new lad as we all ran a mile from getting involved. For two days he created user accounts, saying it only took him half an hour to do what she would do in a day. Then he said it was all bollocks anyway, wrote a perl script to do it automatically. She came back to find that after all the fuss she had spent years whinging about, had been automated with 100 lines of code that didn't cause a fuss and drag down productivity.
This one is a more difficult one. It is a presentation to 24 heads of departments, so quite senior people and coordinating all them are a nightmare. If the rule was everyone in, this would only really work if most departments are in on the same day, and since one building just got condemned we suddenly have space issues.
On the other hand, one of my team is in and I just took him for a coffee and a general chat, which is important when you manage people.
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