Message #46027

[tuxcat]

I work for a religious institution, not a company, but there is definitely a "culture" there!  Many of the staff have been there for many years, and are very resistant to change/new ideas.  I'm constantly amazed by the number of staff who have no idea of the power of their PCs - preferring to do layouts literally by cutting and pasting, not using Outlook to arrange meetings but preferring to make twenty phonecalls only to have to start over again ..... For someone from the private sector like me, where time saved is money saved, these all come as second nature.

Fortuantely bossie is much of the same mindset as me - I don't think I could cope with one who kept his diary as close to his chest as other staff I could mention!

I can well relate to "cliques" - there are a fair few of those, particularly in the main building.  Luckily I'm in my own office some way away from the main building, so I can get on with life in my own sweet way, and bossie is supportive of that.  In our old office (sole inhabitants of one building) we did refer to ourselves as "The People's Republic"!