I don’t know why I thought of this now but I remember an incident from a few years ago which pretty much killed off a lot of extra effort I had been trying to make.

I heard some news, a piece of technical news which I was told by someone on another team and I also read it in a document. I don’t remember exactly what it was but I was excited and it was going to affect the team. So I drew up a quick email about it and I sent it around the team. As usual it was ignored, I was completely expecting this…until I got an email back from my boss containing a forward from his boss saying that the information was wrong and rumours like that should not be spread (words to the effect).

I wasn’t very happy to say the least. I have no idea why his boss ended up reading it and why it would provoke that response when the information was true and indeed within the “rumour” came to pass and is still going now.

I didn’t get it, I still don’t.

Anyway work these days is a much better place than it was then, there are many of the same issues but they are more easily worked through.

hmm, now where did that come from?