Hi Everyone,



I'm new to this forum today. I need help with something that occurred at work and would like your opinions.

I recently started working for this company and they do a weird thing when drawing organisational charts in PowerPoint. They reduce the slide to 10% and draw in the blue/grey area, because they don't know how to create a big chart to fit the size of the slide. Then they copy the drawing and move it further over to the side away from the slide. Then they paste it in as an enahanced picture and reduce the drawing until it fits the slide.

The original is always kept off the slide in the blue/grey area, therefore editing the original means reducing the slide to 10% and repeating whole process as previous!

They're now asking me to produce drawings in this ludicrous fashion because according to them my skills are too high for them and they couldn't do it any other way, therefore I have to make a compromise and join them!

No! I'm not making this up!

Can you all give me your pros and cons to producing a drawing in this inefficient way. I'm going to be taking this further and would like to have all the facts before presenting my case against this. This is a a top international company!

Your comments would be very much appreciated and I'll post the results.

Thank you.

Regards,

Ziba.

That reall sounds like a typical "not invented here" of some morons that do not know any better. Why don't you show them your method and point out the advantages.

Thank you.

I have explained to them that it would be more efficient, smaller file size, user friendly and easier to apply animation, and also that they can't use the grid and drawing lines.

I asked them to have a look how I create these charts and they just don't want to know because according to them they don't possess my skills. I got the job because of my skills!

These are people who have been working for the same company for decades and don't like change! However, I'm determined to win them over somehow.

Yeah, I have seen those characters too during my professional life. They are just not intersted to augment their skills. Maybe you suggest to them to hold a class and teach them - to get them to at least part of your skill level.

Start convincing the management, then the morons will duck. Make the case that it is in the interest of the company to be more productive and efficient.

Thanks WHS.