I was the Administrator in an office of Politicians. It
was frustratingly impossible to run the office efficiently because every memo I
put out continuously got overridden by a politician who did not understand the
reason for my memo. It was like they thought that my memos were up for debate
and I tried to explain to them that I was putting out MEMORANDUMS - reminders
of things I wanted people to do...not drafting up POLICIES that would be open
for discussion and changed to include everyone's individual desires.
It felt like the politicians thought they had a higher rank than me even though we had 2
completely different jobs in 2 separate areas of the same building. I needed to
run my end a certain way so that they could do their job in their area their
certain way but they felt like they had to advise me how to do my job when they
weren't even trained in what my job was. We had to work together and respect
that each knew how to do their own job and to submit to each other in according
to the expertise required.
