Sigh. You know, I understand the impetus behind all this, but at the same time it honestly feels a bit like smoke and mirrors to me. Because, for instance, this:
that the org is collectively often too busy doing its project-based work to also do its people-based work
I have had serious difficulties doing any of my project-based work over the last two months because whenever those of us who want to move projects forward do things to move the projects forward, we're immediately blocked by other people throwing hissy fits or ego tantrums or ignoring our work or refusing to support us for whatever bullshit political reasons, and otherwise hanging us out to dry. So if this is the org being busy doing its project-based work, then I have to say, as someone on the ground trying to actually do that work and seeing hours and hours of hard work (my own and other people's) repeatedly undone, blown off, ignored, ruined because of miscommunications and procedural hangups, and/or cast aside in favor of placating people with bigger egos than ours, that work is not actually happening.
And since it's not actually happening, then it just feels like an excuse. We're not doing projects or building the builders.
(At least, we're not doing non-AO3-related projects.)
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Sigh. You know, I understand the impetus behind all this, but at the same time it honestly feels a bit like smoke and mirrors to me. Because, for instance, this:
that the org is collectively often too busy doing its project-based work to also do its people-based work
I have had serious difficulties doing any of my project-based work over the last two months because whenever those of us who want to move projects forward do things to move the projects forward, we're immediately blocked by other people throwing hissy fits or ego tantrums or ignoring our work or refusing to support us for whatever bullshit political reasons, and otherwise hanging us out to dry. So if this is the org being busy doing its project-based work, then I have to say, as someone on the ground trying to actually do that work and seeing hours and hours of hard work (my own and other people's) repeatedly undone, blown off, ignored, ruined because of miscommunications and procedural hangups, and/or cast aside in favor of placating people with bigger egos than ours, that work is not actually happening.
And since it's not actually happening, then it just feels like an excuse. We're not doing projects or building the builders.
(At least, we're not doing non-AO3-related projects.)