it's like waiting for vesuvius and getting a spring shower

So.

Here's what happened.

For about, oh, ten months, I've been waiting and waiting to be at this job long enough to be tenured enough to offer suggestions (luckily, we all move around a lot--ten months is commitment). I'd been, up to now, researching ways to create an online repository for our training and shared materials for testing, since right now its networked and not searchable and in folders and it sucks like particularly repetitive pornography.

Wiki seemed really useful, so Fanlore is addictive in both the fannish-must-do way and the wow-this-just-solved-my-search-for-organization way, and whilst working, I started amassing a presentation to make to my boss. Today, I decided, I would schedule a careful, discreet, fanlore-is-relevant-to-my-work (really, I had that ready) first shot and okay, so I had a speech, she came by my office and looked thoughtfully at our contractor's wiki that I'd opened up, and then she said "Okay."

This is like, forty-five seconds of my life that makes no sense.

I did not even get to take out my impressive spreadsheet and offer to do a presentation! I had a plan. It involved powerpoint and a wipeboard and at least forty-five minutes with a laser pointer. It involved actually making an argument.

I have no idea what to do now that I've gotten my way.

(I can't even tell if it's that she thinks it's a good idea or that she's getting worried about leaving me alone with a computer and all those interfaces to the database and the linux server active and ready for use.)

*blank* I have to contact the server persons and arrange--something. I don't even know what. Apparently, he is going to be really excited to do this with us. Which basically makes me terrified. I am used to being the excited one with other people quailing in fear.

So. Disturbed.

ETA: *shaky* Environmental management just emailed me. They sound happy. They want an outline of what I'm looking for so they can set it up and get it started. I need to lie down.

(ETA 2: WHY IS NO ONE ASKING FOR AN EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE TO RESEARCH THIS FOR TEN YEARS? I AM IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.)

Comments

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I am really sorry, but:

helplessly laughs at you

You're kinda awesome :D

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I know this is a ruse or something. I can feel it. Government does not work this way.

There's email in my box. My God, the server people have been contacted.

[sapphiresmuse.livejournal.com]

Uh . . . *nothing* happens that fast in government. I know; I've been fighting it at work for years.

Good god, what happened to taking it to a committee and then establishing a stakeholder committee and then months and months of meetings where nothing is really decided until all of a sudden they decide they want it accomplished yesterday and don't understand why it can't be done yesterday because, ya know, we've been having meetings for months where they talked and talked and talked *about* it but never directed anything actually be done but now can't you create it from scratch and make it a workable tool overnight?

*sigh*

I wish my bosses appreciated initiative. The last time I tried that I got a "I'm so disappointed in you" from my boss. Admittedly, said boss is a control freak and micro-manages me to the point that I'm meeting with her boss for lunch tomorrow to discuss the situation ... oh yeah, probably gonna get myself in more trouble.

okay

That was a rant, wasn't it?

Really just meant to say "GO YOU!" and I'm just as shocked as you are that all it took was a few seconds and an okay and network is already on it. That's the antithesis of government. That's progress! I'm just so shocked ...