One big stone on top of another

Now im beginning to understand the full extent of the warning i got from my colleague who helped me secure this position. My team does not seem to be understaffed but more like they are overworked. I got to know that ALL of them are handling like at least 10 concurrent projects and their calender are full of appointments. Sometimes they don't even have time for lunch @_@"

In a way i have been honeymooning until last week by doing clerical work or sometimes even secretarial work (not to the extent of making coffee, thank god). Since Monday my calender too have been starting to fill up. Attending meetings is fine with me since i got no authority to make any decisions for my department. Now that im picking up speed to be overworked, i first got a big stone, to sextify satisfy external auditors and fulfill all their demands whenever possible. Simple demands at first, no problemo! Starting Monday, i have to breathe down the necks of senior managers to get their reply to answer auditor questions, many of them of course are too 'busy' and delegate the work to the supposedly 'more knowledgeable' staff.

If you worked in a GLC or dealt with a GLC, you will know how they mentality is and the trouble of getting these people to work. '4方木, 踢一次, 动一次'. Actually some are even worse, to make that already worse matter ever more worse is that that manager is now in charge of the biggest application in the company and is one of the most elusive, hardest to reach/contact person in the whole company. Seems to be more busy than the CEO (FYI, my CEO is a known workaholic). After many attempts to contact him, i managed to force him to assign a manager to hopefully get the information i require to sextify satisfy the auditor, which is about 2 days later and at the end of day 2 im still left with this application's information not updated so that i can get the auditor off my back to do my other mounting tasks.

Yesterday, another big stone was dropped upon my shoulders. Since my department got a makeover due to the re-structuring, we have to handle aonther big task. This task is of course delegated to the seemingly most free staff ie your's truly. Again, i will have to deal with senior managers and chase them for more things which they do not want to do =_=" To make matters worse, i have to set goals for them achieve, failing which they must come up with plans to mitigate the risks, this of course is another thing which they do not want to do and your's truly will have to chase them to ensure that they have that plan before my due date to submit the report. I just received a big stack (>1 feet tall ^_^") of documents which my boss gave me 2 weeks to digest and come up with an executive summary for him to enjoy.

One of my task when doing clerical/secretarial work was to summarize a big ring file of documents into 10 pages of presentation to be easily digested by everyone in my sector (ie all of IT, starting with the managers). I have done this in about a week and since this is related to another big task which is again delegated to me making it big stone 3.

All these things will require reports, monthly, quarterly, half yearly, yearly and adhoc or as and when required. GREAT!!! One report after another, sextifying satisfying the auditors, attend meetings + all the secretarial/clerical work which will be thrown to me from time to time. Since some of my colleagues will be moving away due re-structuring, i MUST take this opportunity to move further away from my boss and definately try to get out of the secretary's cubicle. He doesn't like to have secretaries therefore there has been none since his arrival in to the company.

Hmmm since im the 'junior', i think future activities of going to the vendor's office will be delegated to me too. Oh yeah, these fine overworked people do not like to claim overtime, WOOT! I guess this is how they welcome new people into the department. I sure as hell hope there will be a new junior soon. So that i can delegate some work to him/her too :p