Insomnia or Fuzzy Math
I'm glad I get to take a hiatus from work tomorrow, though it was much less stressful today than yesterday. Tried to get some paperwork done, but it seems when I walk through the door, I get 3 pages before I make it to the timeclock.
I really think there's a "liz alarm" that goes off when I walk through the doors which alerts all management and specialty associates that I'm there.
On the bright side, today was staff. Huzzah for staff.
Sometimes it's nice to sit in staff away from all the crazies on the floor. We have a pretty good management staff, and we all make the most of 4-5 hours tucked away at the round table on Wednesdays.
We go through sales, service...etc... there's always some kind of training to do, usually head up by Captain HR.
Rob passes around the latest ad action items, and we spend 20-30 minutes discussing execution. Today we were going over the mother's day ad. Rob (our GSM) was threatening to highlight lawn equipment, janatorial supplies and vacuums for the big mother's day display. Grrrrr Even though the men outnumber the women in the manager/dh circle, I think we could have easily murdered all the men and dumped their bodies in the compactor. *evil grin*
The rest of the meeting usually consists of watching operations broadcasts on trust Home Depot TV. A new addition to our regularly scheduled HDTV programming is the "Same Page" broadcast. **begin home depot productivity rant**
The "Same Page" broadcast just rolled out about a month ago. Basically all the division presidents sit around a small round table in their crisp, clean, creased aprons and discuss the company-wide action items for the week. The reasoning behind this broadcast, which lasts around 20-40 minutes, was to keep DMs and GSMs focused on the most important action items and eliminate redundant emails, phone calls, text pages, carrier pigeons...whatever.
The Home Depot elite sitting in the ivory tower apparently hoped that this would increase productivity, but there's a small kink in their plan. The "Same Page" process and execution is as follows:
Monday//
Same Page airs. GSM watches the broadcast live, takes notes. Plans execution
Tuesday//
GSM/DM staff meeting at district office. Same Page recording is reviewed again. More plans for execution
Tuesday or Wednesday (pre-staff)
Mini Staff meeting w/GSM and ASMs. More planned implementation of Same Page. (possibly reviewing the broadcast a 3rd time?)
Wednesday// (staff)
Same Page viewed *again* by GSM, ASMs, DHs. Same Page memo passed around with the SAME BLOODY information--verbally reviewed. More plans for execution.
It is probably worth noting that by Wednesday, over half of the SP action items list should, in theory, be complete.
Home Depot management spends so much time discussing productivity, but I started adding it up.
I spend 5 hours a week in staff/operations meetings. I spend 2 hours a month in district operations meetings. Another 2 hours in a storewide meeting=24 hours a month in some type of meeting or another. (multiply that by 10 DHs and you get 240 associate hours a month in meetings)
We have Employee of Choice Focus meetings..
3 groups, 3 people per group, 1 hour a week= 9 associate hours a week in meetings.
Infocus (shrink/safety group) meetings. 2 hours a week, 6 people in infocus= 12 associate hours a week in a meeting.= 48 hours a month
GSM
4 hours in staff a week. 8 hours in DM/GSM staff a week (and they usually go over that time period) 1 hour w/merch DHs a week. 1 hour GSM/ASM staff, 1 hour ops meeting a week, 2 hours store meeting=62 hours a month in meetings.
SASM
Staff, specialty meeting, GSM meeting, DH meeting, store meeting=30 hours a month
OPS
Staff, Ops, GSM meeting, Store, OPS District meeting=34 hours a month
ASM
Same as asm minus the specialty meeting=28 hours a month
All that added up comes to roughly 478 hours a month in meetings. O_o. (this is mainly for managers, DHs, and people involved in volunteer groups)
478 hrs divided by 40 hours a week = roughly 12 full time associates on the floor executing the above action items every week!
So Mr. Nardelli, if you are reading this... take a hint. Less meetings=more productivity.
Now, ask me why I decided to figure and add that all up at 4 in the bloody morning? Insomnia.
Liz
Who despite the above rant, still bleeds orange.
I really think there's a "liz alarm" that goes off when I walk through the doors which alerts all management and specialty associates that I'm there.
On the bright side, today was staff. Huzzah for staff.
Sometimes it's nice to sit in staff away from all the crazies on the floor. We have a pretty good management staff, and we all make the most of 4-5 hours tucked away at the round table on Wednesdays.
We go through sales, service...etc... there's always some kind of training to do, usually head up by Captain HR.
Rob passes around the latest ad action items, and we spend 20-30 minutes discussing execution. Today we were going over the mother's day ad. Rob (our GSM) was threatening to highlight lawn equipment, janatorial supplies and vacuums for the big mother's day display. Grrrrr Even though the men outnumber the women in the manager/dh circle, I think we could have easily murdered all the men and dumped their bodies in the compactor. *evil grin*
The rest of the meeting usually consists of watching operations broadcasts on trust Home Depot TV. A new addition to our regularly scheduled HDTV programming is the "Same Page" broadcast. **begin home depot productivity rant**
The "Same Page" broadcast just rolled out about a month ago. Basically all the division presidents sit around a small round table in their crisp, clean, creased aprons and discuss the company-wide action items for the week. The reasoning behind this broadcast, which lasts around 20-40 minutes, was to keep DMs and GSMs focused on the most important action items and eliminate redundant emails, phone calls, text pages, carrier pigeons...whatever.
The Home Depot elite sitting in the ivory tower apparently hoped that this would increase productivity, but there's a small kink in their plan. The "Same Page" process and execution is as follows:
Monday//
Same Page airs. GSM watches the broadcast live, takes notes. Plans execution
Tuesday//
GSM/DM staff meeting at district office. Same Page recording is reviewed again. More plans for execution
Tuesday or Wednesday (pre-staff)
Mini Staff meeting w/GSM and ASMs. More planned implementation of Same Page. (possibly reviewing the broadcast a 3rd time?)
Wednesday// (staff)
Same Page viewed *again* by GSM, ASMs, DHs. Same Page memo passed around with the SAME BLOODY information--verbally reviewed. More plans for execution.
It is probably worth noting that by Wednesday, over half of the SP action items list should, in theory, be complete.
Home Depot management spends so much time discussing productivity, but I started adding it up.
I spend 5 hours a week in staff/operations meetings. I spend 2 hours a month in district operations meetings. Another 2 hours in a storewide meeting=24 hours a month in some type of meeting or another. (multiply that by 10 DHs and you get 240 associate hours a month in meetings)
We have Employee of Choice Focus meetings..
3 groups, 3 people per group, 1 hour a week= 9 associate hours a week in meetings.
Infocus (shrink/safety group) meetings. 2 hours a week, 6 people in infocus= 12 associate hours a week in a meeting.= 48 hours a month
GSM
4 hours in staff a week. 8 hours in DM/GSM staff a week (and they usually go over that time period) 1 hour w/merch DHs a week. 1 hour GSM/ASM staff, 1 hour ops meeting a week, 2 hours store meeting=62 hours a month in meetings.
SASM
Staff, specialty meeting, GSM meeting, DH meeting, store meeting=30 hours a month
OPS
Staff, Ops, GSM meeting, Store, OPS District meeting=34 hours a month
ASM
Same as asm minus the specialty meeting=28 hours a month
All that added up comes to roughly 478 hours a month in meetings. O_o. (this is mainly for managers, DHs, and people involved in volunteer groups)
478 hrs divided by 40 hours a week = roughly 12 full time associates on the floor executing the above action items every week!
So Mr. Nardelli, if you are reading this... take a hint. Less meetings=more productivity.
Now, ask me why I decided to figure and add that all up at 4 in the bloody morning? Insomnia.
Liz
Who despite the above rant, still bleeds orange.
posted by Liz at 5/05/2005 03:22:00 AM
3 Comments:
on a sidenote: Home Depot has WAY too many acronyms.
"478 hrs divided by 40 hours a week = roughly 12 full time associates on the floor executing the above action items every week!"
Actually, your math slipped a digit there. You started off talking about hours per month, so in order to figure it out you have to divide by a full timer's hours per month (ie: 40 hours a week times 4 weeks average? = 160 hours). THAT divided by the 478 hours is closer to 3 full time associates, rather than 12. So it's still not efficient, but at least it's not as rediculous as it initially sounded ;)
~Shaun
It was 4 am...
But thanks for pointing out my deficiencies in a timely manner.
Oh, BTW... bite me :)
Liz
PS. We are GOING to see HHGTTG this weekend.
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