I'm in a place where we need more specific details on what is expected. This comes due to a lack of clarity in each ask, a lack of clarity in vision, a surplus of ego from management, and a lack of autonomy given to employees. Every time I think I know enough to make a decision on my own (or even within my team) and move forward, 6 months later I'm told to re-do it, because that wasn't the plan. I was never told the plan, and when I ask, I'm ignored. I don't think they know what they're doing either, which is why there is no clarity. They just know that it should be their decision, not mine, so I'm always wrong by default. It wasn't always like this, new managers, new style, and a lot of political nonsense.
Just a month ago I was on a call with 6 VPs. I wasn't invited, but someone added me, because I wrote all the code for the thing they would be talking about. It took me a good 40 minutes to get some very simple questions answered. I had to ask over and over again, in many different ways. At the end, I thought I had clarity. I did exactly what they asked, and then when it was done, and I explained exactly what I did (because I thought it was stupid), I was told to change it. My saving grace, was I knew it was stupid, so I made it very easy on myself to flip the logic, so that only took about 2 minutes. Before I spoke up on the call, they were going to ask someone to manually do some extra work at the start/end of every automated run, instead of just asking me to update the automation. It was like they weren't aware the whole process was automated end-to-end and it could be modified to make it whatever we want.
Some organizations are so dysfunctional there is no way to win.
Just a month ago I was on a call with 6 VPs. I wasn't invited, but someone added me, because I wrote all the code for the thing they would be talking about. It took me a good 40 minutes to get some very simple questions answered. I had to ask over and over again, in many different ways. At the end, I thought I had clarity. I did exactly what they asked, and then when it was done, and I explained exactly what I did (because I thought it was stupid), I was told to change it. My saving grace, was I knew it was stupid, so I made it very easy on myself to flip the logic, so that only took about 2 minutes. Before I spoke up on the call, they were going to ask someone to manually do some extra work at the start/end of every automated run, instead of just asking me to update the automation. It was like they weren't aware the whole process was automated end-to-end and it could be modified to make it whatever we want.
Some organizations are so dysfunctional there is no way to win.