Went out with mein liebe for a few beers and a pub meal. Now home getting into the aldi wine we bought. Got a dr appt on Monday for my MC script so hopefully I can feel rested; the night terrors and sleep debt are killing me.
While the department that I work in is profitable, overall our organisation is set to lose money this year.
Bad decisions made by the “manager” have been a contributing factor.
But.
The “manager” has gotten it in his head that if only our organisation can send an email to everyone on a partner organisation’s mailing list, sales will boom.
A couple of months back, he convinced the partner organisation to send a small segment of its list an email offering them one of our organisation’s products for free.
And to be fair, a reasonable number took up the free product.
This has convinced “manager” that if the partner organisation sends an email to its entire mailing list offering them a discount for buying our org’s products, thousands of them will take it up. Even though many (most?) of their customers have never heard of us before.
The “manager’s” boss is new in her role (she moved into it after a restructure earlier this year), and trusts what he says.
Here’s where it becomes a trainwreck.
The past two years, our org has run an end of financial year sale aimed at consumers. Both times, it has increased sales a bit, but nowhere near enough to meet targets.
Marketing have tried different promotions and shown they work better. They want to run a marketing campaign to business customers for the end of financial year, and use a different approach with consumers in the new financial year.
They did a whole preso to “manager” showing that a different approach will generate more sales overall — but a lot of that revenue will fall in the new financial year.
Manager overruled them. His official reason is that he doesn’t want to try anything different to last year, because that’s risky.
(The real reason is he wants as many sales as possible this financial year, so that the losses from his bad decisions are as small as possible.)
So marketing are stuck with a campaign they know won’t work.
“Manager’s” brilliant plan is to use that campaign strategy that hasn’t worked, but then to get the partner organisation to email everyone on their mailing list, which he thinks will mean thousands of people will buy products and that will make it work.
(And yes, partner org mailing everyone on their mailing list is something out org hasn’t done before. But this isn’t seen as “risky” by “manager” because it’s his idea.)
Of course, this pissed off the business salespeople.
So to keep them on-side, he’s also making marketing run the business promotion as well, even though they don’t have the staff or the budget to do both.
He’s only just approved all of this now, and both promotions need to start on 1 June, so the graphic designers basically have two weeks to get everything ready.
It gets worse.
The partner organisation has already explicitly told us that e-mailing everyone on their contact list during June is a hard no.
But “manager” has sold his boss on the idea, and she’s said that she expects partner org to email everyone on their contact list.
Following a string of meetings, my boss is now stuck with making that happen. Even though it’s a hard no from the partner org.
So I was stuck in a string of meetings today where my boss was desperately trying to find a reason to tell her contact at the partner org why they should change their policy other than “Manager” thinks it’s a good idea (there isn’t one). Or some fact or piece of information will persuade “manager” to see reason (I’m honestly not hopeful).
“manager” is an absolute moron, and it’s insane that his bosses don’t see it. What the actual fucking fuck. These people aren’t earning their wages in the slightest 😑
This is always tough. Everyone drags their feet because it won’t work, then it doesn’t like everyone expected, and then the manager has a new reason to blame everyone else for their poor decision
I seem to have flipped my sleeping around to the other extreme. Now rather than sleeping at 6am, I’m sleeping at 6pm. God at this point I feel like the only time I’m happy sleeping is if I’m bucking social norms and sleeping like a madman. Besides it being an odd time to go to sleep, it hasn’t been working too badly for me, especially since it’s dark by those times these days. Unfortunately I forgot to tell Alexa that I took the bins out so she started making noise at 8:30 yelling at me to take the bins out (bin day was yesterday, but the reminder goes off every 24hrs til I mark it complete)
Can’t get back to sleep, but I’m too tired to get up and try again in a couple of hours
Regarding bins: I miss having a garbage chute, or wheelie bins to take to the curb. My apartment building has a dumpster room downstairs but I have to lug my bags of trash and kitty litter down too it. I have no idea when “bin day” is anymore, and taking recycling down is a pain.
Try to rest if you can, and keep a good sleep schedule. It’s too easy to slip into bad sleeping habits.
Here’s to the end of a pretty ordinary week. Mr P had to give bone marrow sample and has had appointment at Peter Mac. We’re waiting to find out if he has blood cancer, leukaemia or whatever they call it now. Elder minipeeler is still having major issues with anxiety and school refusal. My MIL offered to pay for him to go to a private school she thinks would be better for him… would’ve been nice to offer that last year, when I was having to enrol him in the only (really big) public school in our catchment and I was saying that I didn’t have a good feeling about it, that I felt that there’d be problems for him given the issues he’d had in the past, but had no choice financially. I was equally anxious and bummed out about it and she knew that back then. Now she wants to sweep in with her money and save the day, by uprooting him and plonking him into a new school‽ I feel bad for being ungrateful. Miniest is going through a very testing rebellious and wilful stage. I’m trying to give her as much of myself as I can and my patience, as she is jealous of Elder and her dad being home all the time, which is perfectly understandable. She is academically gifted but puts in a bare minimum of effort and is wasting her awesome potential and it’s hugely frustrating, but she doesn’t give a shit. I am feeling older and more tired in my body and it’s depressing. I’ve been bingeing dystopian shows on Netflix and find them comfortingly awful. I gave up on the “comedy” category… maybe Americans just laugh at different stuff, but I found little humour there. Thankyou for reading my grumbles.
Sounds like it’s gonna be rough for a while. You can vent here anytime. We gotcha. I very much hope the tests all come back negative. But shit happens. And if it does, there are very good treatments these days and Peter Mac is world class, no better place to be. You’re doing brilliant with the minipeelers. Other people will always have opinions, but you know their needs best. And if you decide the offer of money is helpful, take it without hesitation, do whatever you think is best for the minis. The politics can be worried about later. As for Netflix, I can recommend 3 Body Problem for the dystopian genre. For comedy there’s heaps of older movies on there sometimes old school comedy is a good remedy to modern American humour. Although The Good Place is an exception, thats one of my favourite shows of recent years.
Girl, you have so much on your plate. Like, you’re the only one holding it all together. Your strength is admirable. I’m sorry you’re going through all of this, it’s hard! If you ever want to, or able to, catch up for a coffee and a debrief, I’m available. It sounds like you need some serious “me time”. Sending you all my love and postive energy 💜
I’m so sorry to hear it. Please, if you can handle doing it get in touch with carers supports right now. If someone could help you with it that would be great.
Kinda just laying here in a stressed out but exhausted state from the week. Had a bite to eat but too tired for much else. Think I am gonna pour a drink and make a list of the work life things that have to happen next week then go to bed. I hate feeling like I left everything in a mess but nothing seemed to get finished this week and I can already feel the wave building up for next . Gah hopefully it’s just grey day blues
Feeling a bit like that except it’s my travel plans that’s a siren-blaring mess lol. I’m letting myself park it till tomorrow, can’t fix the mess if I don’t recharge right now and let my brain heal from all the load it’s been placed under. Lean into the grey I say, get cozy and warm for one night at least.
You are right. Ended up just writing down what I need to do tomorrow morning in case I wake up stressed still. Now listening to the rain. Good luck with the travel plans. I am sure it will come together when you have some rest
Gosh, ever read The Silmarillion, that’s scripture at the start. And then you get into his letters and it’s retcons for daaaayyyys. And the insane fans will just rip you to shreds if you haven’t read the letters.
I’ve read The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of The Rings; I’m not gonna read his freaking letters too, or his son’s.
If you’re able to, get a copy of The Soddit and/or The Sellamillion by Adam Roberts. They’re hilarious parodies that I love too, I still quote The Soddit. Don’t mind the insane fans, they’re ridiculous people lol
I remember so many houses like this. Very nostalgic feel. I bet many a delicious meal came out of that kitchen. Whilst the brown is not to my taste, today’s endless palette of grey is soul sucking least people used to put some personality into their houses before.
Very solid - but I would have concerns about that much brick holding the heat/cold. Depending on how the rest of the design works it could be a major issue or a major benefit having that much thermal mass.
I’m glad they usually include plans with measurements these days, it makes it much easier to figure out how much space there really is. I spent some time with a tape measure around my place figuring out some comparisons and minimum room sizes I am looking for which should hopefully cut down on some wasted time inspecting places.
The bedroom that only opens to the carport looks like it would be dark. But the layout is ok…so so brown though. I love myself a bit of exposed brick but…man
If anybody anticipates needing one from Kmart over winter, get in quick! Last year I discovered the hard way that Kmart don’t sell heaters past the first month of winter. Had to buy one that was identical to the $20 Kmart one from big W for $60 😑
Oh no! And even worse tomorrow’s the weekend so might not get trades until next week. Do you have a split system aircon? They can heat as well. Hopefully you can find ways to stay warm until it’s fixed.
Have found a tradie to come on Wednesday. Not a chance over the weekend apparently. Also, the nice person at the call centre said that they’d had more than 50 calls since 5 pm today for similar problems. Aaaarrrrrgggghhhh.
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