Spell Check Your Resume

I got an email from a guy at my company who is looking for a project. I guess he needs to get placed or he is out of work. So I took a peek at his resume. One of the first things I saw was that he listed his maticulous [sic] trait. Oh boy. We might be in trouble.

It was a bit funny but sad too. How meticulous can you be if you cannot spell meticulous? At least run your resume through a spell checker and correct the problems before blasting your resume out to strangers. Otherwise you will face peril.

I took a closer look at the resume. Seems like the guy is going to college to get his degree. Not sure how my company hired him. I tried to get a rock star college student hired. Was told that we only hire college grads from good colleges here. Go figure.

Middle Management

When I first joined my company, there was a team of managers on the project. They worked hard. There was a lot of work to do. I got used to them. Then something happened. I suspect they got tired of working hard. What did they do? They hired their replacements.

Well replacement might be the wrong name. They hired new middle managers and called them the delivery management team. Now the senior managers sit back and let the middle managers handle all the muck. We have a lot of middle managers working hard.

My own team has been dwindling down due to attrition and reassignment of team members to other initiatives. We each have more responsibility. Oh well. My team is now small. I took a vacation last week. When I came back, the team lead had also taken some time off.

The delivery manager in charge of us seems to have a plan of his own. He wants to delegate down to the team leaders. And when my team lead is out, I guess the buck stops with me. Now doing management by itself might not be evil. But I don't want to manage when I also need to turn around and do most of the actual work.

I call shennanigans. Definitely don't want to end up doing a middle manager's job. Not at all.