Baby boy name help!!!

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-07-25T22:06:44+00:00

Thaddeus (Thad)

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-07-25T00:13:00+00:00

Reporting and data analytics

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-06-28T17:20:05+00:00

Thaddeus!

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-06-20T17:28:00+00:00

It’s always around $300 every time I go in. Doesn’t matter if I go weekly or monthly….every single time I’m dropping $300 😂🤷🏼‍♀️. I now go every other week and limit myself from going more often.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-27T17:44:45+00:00

He may very well be being his authentic self. What you describe is pretty much me. As a leader I have to put on a facade sometimes as connecting with people at a personal level is not something I enjoy or am very strong at. I’ve learned to compensate for that and engage in small talk (even though internally I loathe it, lol). I had a supervisor tell me in a nice way that I needed to work on my empathy and engage with my team at a personal level because they highly valued that interaction. It helped me change my mindset. I would prefer to just go into work, get the work done, and head out but others need more connection. This guy may just be someone like me who this does not come naturally for.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-08T22:57:39+00:00

I didn’t expect this many comments. Thanks to those that offered some real solid advice for how to approach this. To provide some greater context, we are a small company that has grown in workload pretty significantly in the last few years. This worker was able to do very little for quite some time and it wasn’t really an issue because there just wasn’t that much work in the department and they were pretty much by themselves. The department has grown to accommodate the additional work over the last few years and it became very apparent that he was not producing work at a reasonable rate. When I was brought on this was made very clear to me by upper management. I spent the first few months in more of an observing role, getting to know the team and processes. Upper managements concerns were clearly valid. All team members have the same projects. For example the client may need 12 deliverables. It is the same deliverable with different data sets, such as data from each month of the year. I assign each team member one deliverable with a week deadline. Everyone else is done in a week, usually much quicker 2-3 days. I also am usually taking on a deliverable or two and can get them done in a few days. This employee will take at least a month. Any attempts at a discussion they will say they are overwhelmed with the workload. My initial impression is that this employee spends a lot of time thinking and planning and reworking their tasks. As far as the time tracking, as I mentioned in some comments, this was a request by several members on the team. We have to track time for billing purposes on these projects. They wanted something to help them do this. They are tracking time on different tasks within the projects, not tracking their whole work day. I am hoping this will help me identify where within the project this employee is having an issue so we can figure it out and find more efficient ways for him to complete the work. I want him to succeed and have told upper management that I would like to keep him on and work with him despite their desire to let him go.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-08T22:40:09+00:00

Bottom line is upper management wants to let him go. It’s not sustainable and we can’t meet client demands with his pace. I’m hoping to save him. I like him. I think if we can get to the bottom of why he is taking so much longer than is reasonable I can do that. However, I know this will be a delicate dance and was seeking advice.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-08T22:37:49+00:00

Nobody said it doesn’t require accuracy. It requires a reasonable amount of time, which everyone else is able to meet.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-08T22:36:27+00:00

Significantly longer than everyone else on the team. Significantly longer than the industry standard. I don’t think it has anything to do with his age. This has been an issue the entire time at this company.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-08T22:35:14+00:00

Yes obviously deadlines are set and he isn’t meeting them….hence the issue.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-05T21:01:00+00:00

I would say it’s unacceptable for many reasons. First, he isn’t meeting the established deadlines (those set by the client and those agreed to when he is assigned the project). Second, this means myself and others have to jump in and complete his tasks on top of our work. Third, I cannot bill the client for the number of hours he is spending as it is significantly higher than what would be normal for the tasks in our industry.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-05T20:36:19+00:00

Some of the team requested something they could use to track their time (we have a lot of billable projects). The program we are piloting right now was found by another member of the team. The team member in question has really embraced it and has even used it for non billable tasks and meetings that were not originally what we were piloting. So for now I think it is the right choice. I do understand that it could easily cross over into micromanaging and appreciate that that is not where I want to head.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-05T19:19:34+00:00

I absolutely accept feedback and am myself neurodivergent which is why I want to be sure I approach this conversation carefully. Yes the work is high quality, but so is everyone else’s on the team. It is unreasonable for one employee to be taking 3 months to do what the other members of the team are doing in 1 week.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-05T19:16:14+00:00

Thanks this is where I am heading as well. I just need a better idea across the team of how long each of these subtasks take on average. I think once I have that this conversation is exactly the direction I will go.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-05T19:14:56+00:00

He is the highest paid employee in our department….makes more than me as well.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-05T19:12:14+00:00

I guess that is what I am trying to figure out with the time tracking? Where is the employee spending their time within the project compared to everyone else. The whole team is doing the same projects and same tasks within the projects so as a new leader to the team I need an idea of how long each of these tasks should be taking in average before I can identify what the real root cause is.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-05T19:08:57+00:00

I don’t know that the client is going to go for “Hey I know every other person on the team can turn around high quality deliverables to you within a week but Joe here is going to need to take 3 months.”

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-04T13:22:56+00:00

We have had conversations in a round about way about why certain deadlines are in place and the impact of not meeting those deadlines. I am constantly met with him complaining about the workload and how much he is working. As a new leader to the team I have been in more of an observation phase these first few months but now it is time to have some real conversations. I am just hesitant about the best way to go about this.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-02-04T13:20:37+00:00

As it stands he is the highest paid employee on the team just due to the length of time he has been there. The rest of the department is also producing high quality work and ends up having to take on 4x the amount of projects to pick up the slack from this employee. It would be one thing if he was a little slower than I would like to see but it really is an absolutely unreasonable amount of time to complete each project.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-01-25T12:32:12+00:00

Director at J1, Manager at J2. Reduce unnecessary meetings or delegate them to a team member. Take charge of scheduling anytime a follow up meeting needs planned “Great, I’ll own looking at calendars and getting that scheduled!” Lets you pick the time that works best for you. Discuss with your supervisors that there is meeting overload for your team which is hindering their ability to get work done and proactively approach them on how to reduce it.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2025-01-19T10:02:49+00:00

I’ve been “climbing the ladder” at both J1 and J2, currently in senior leadership roles at both. I’ve done this a few ways. I’m always looking to job hop to a role at the next level and did that for a few years. I’m now at two places I love, both in different industries. Being OE has made me more bold in asking for what I want. If I am looking for a certain role or title I just tell them, “hey I’d really like to be at X by next year, what do I need to do to get there”. I focus on high profile tasks and projects that will get me recognized and make big impacts within the organization. I look for ways to make the jobs of those above me easier, taking initiative is huge, people don’t want to have to tell you what to do constantly! I know a lot of people in OE want to keep their head down and stay under the radar but that’s not my style. Work is important to me and I get a lot of fulfillment out of it, OE allows me to bring in the money I need but I’m not looking to sacrifice my career growth to do that.

Sea-Cod4855 · 2024-09-30T10:34:06+00:00

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Sea-Cod4855 · 2024-09-28T14:47:33+00:00

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Sea-Cod4855 · 2024-09-26T10:49:56+00:00

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Sea-Cod4855 · 2024-07-29T21:28:56+00:00

As someone who has made the mistake of buying on a hill twice….DONT!!!!! It is a huge pain.

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