Reply to: What kind of worker are you?

[Dallas]

I've learnt not to try and be the project hero by burning my fingers a few times.
My foremost responsibility is to maximise profit for MyLtd. Co. and to that end, I stick to my deliverables precisely.
However, I do occasionally make a show of (this has to be well timed) going over and beyond but that is only as a marketing tactic for the expertise MyLtd. Co. has to offer rather than any desire to be the project hero.

Bingo, I am the same.

But with that I do feel like a spectator to untrained wannabe pioneers on a continuous insistence of re-inventing the wheel and self-congratulations can be patronising at time too

[suityou01]

Bit of a hypocritical thread title isn't it though?

Oh, sorry, he said *worker*.

[yetanotherbob]

I've learnt not to try and be the project hero by burning my fingers a few times.
My foremost responsibility is to maximise profit for MyLtd. Co. and to that end, I stick to my deliverables precisely.
However, I do occasionally make a show of (this has to be well timed) going over and beyond but that is only as a marketing tactic for the expertise MyLtd. Co. has to offer rather than any desire to be the project hero.

[Freamon]

Bit of a hypocritical thread title isn't it though?

Oh, sorry, he said *worker*.

[MarillionFan]

Have you been stealing photos from MFs photo album again.

This from Eeks

<inserts random picture from Google using the words 'fawning lickspittle'>

[shaunbhoy]

Have you been stealing photos from MFs photo album again.

Nah. That was a freebie from his Wedding Photographer's Preview Folder.

You should have seen the ones that didn't make it in!!

[eek]

Yeah, we know.

Have you been stealing photos from MFs photo album again.

[cojak]

I used to be a project hero until I realised that well run projects don't need heroes.

So that's how I run my projects (or my part of the project) these days.

[shaunbhoy]

Most of the time I get stuck in and generally over deliver and offer my services outside of the original project scope.

That is what AtW does too. He is the toast of the docks.

[Spacecadet]

Most of the time I get stuck in and generally over deliver and offer my services outside of the original project scope.

For various reasons I've not done that on my current gig though.

[bobspud]

I have only ever worked by rolling my sleeves up and getting the job done. However having had to undo several well meant gestures, I would say sometimes I would rather have an arm folder on my team than someone that does not know their own limits.

[shaunbhoy]

Superhero. I wear my underpants on the outside.

Yeah, we know.

[Zippy]

Me and the QA manager at the last project progress meeting

[Freamon]

I am definitely an "arm folder", off at 5 pm sharp. Won't touch anything outside my "jurisdiction" unless I'm forced to. Staying late needs to be approved by at least two layers of managers. I find "project heros" create a lot of problems disturbing the gentle pond like surface of a well run project. A good project team sits there with dour expressions, an air of reluctant co-operation, pessimistic estimates, and a constant murmuring that most things are really quite impossible.

I'm sure everyone agrees you do a reasonable job while you're there, but this is a good way not to be asked back again. Nobody is going to seek you out to solve their most difficult problems.

[Churchill]

Are you the 'arms folded' type where you 'have done your bit' and it's 'somebody elses problem' and the 'arse covering email' is in the sent items folder. Or do you muck in and help out where you can?

I don't work well with arm folders. They irritate the tulipe out of me. (Contract and perm). Then again I have a tendancy to over extend, find myself then spread way too thin and on the brink of needing rubber sheets, (while the arm folders point and laugh).

So, are you worth your day rate as project hero? Or an arm folder?

I'm so MoneySupermarket!