Work processes are meant to add value. A list of Rock Stars might become an article about Rock wives, meant to produce revenue for an entertainment website. Adding images of sultry wives to the article is a work process that adds still more value, and posting the article is a work process too.
Workers can improve their careers by figuring out how to make their work processes add maximum value to their company’s product. A worker who does this is a valuable employee. On the other hand, workers can improve their personal lives by figuring how to do their work processes efficiently, with minimum do-overs, to increase personal time.
Work processes are often laid out in the strictest terms. Employees are told to do one thing exactly this way, and then do the next thing exactly that way. Beginners should do just as they are told. At the same time though, it’s a good idea to analyze the work process for yourself, in hopes that you can somehow improve the way things are done, by offering a suggestion. There’s always room for improvement.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with work processes. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Work Processes
- I have a final paper that is due. This is a step by step process, I have a perfect score for all two previous papers but only received a c for the third. I am now working on my fourth and final and am frustrated because now I feel as though I do not know what I am doing.
- I just started a new job 6 months ago. My supervisor is very slow to trust, so I’m not being utilized as fully as I’m capable of. This is very frustrating because I keep running into road blocks to implementing activities & processes that are needed but I don’t have authority to initiate. As a consequence I have to wait for someone else to initiate the activity/process before I can do anything.
- I worked in a BPO company and I was not satisfied with the work. because of that I talked to my supervisor for the process change and after 3-4 month I moved to another process and I loved that process and I was too good in that process. but because of some reasonsmy supervisor put me back into the previous process. I got frustrated and that was uncontrollable moment for me so I absconded from the job.
- Learning a higher level process at my job. The availability of training is limited and the hands on practice is random and sporadic. My frustration is that it is a slow process and I am working with the public as I am learning. What I have gained from this process is the ability to pick up and learn the process faster.
- Looking for new apartments: It’s frustrating to get your hopes up and envision what could be in a space only to have it fall through and not work out. At the same time I feel that I’ve been learning many valuable intangible things through the active process of searching and waiting.
- My grandmother forced me to fill out a job application during a causal library visit. She was socializing with the librarian and discovered they were in immediate need of a shelver. I’ve never had a job before and the application process seems very official to me, I didn’t want to fill it out incorrectly. She acted like it was nonchalant, like going through the motions I guess, and she was constantly rushing me to finish it. As I finished it to her satisfaction, she took me to the librarian and we turned it in to him. I felt very ashamed by it, it was sloppy and quite blank. In her excitement we left the library early and didn’t accomplish what we had even went there to do.
- One of the most frustrating things I had to do was follow a bull **** traditional process set up by the manager. It was frustrating as I always knew things are not going to work out and there were better options we could have moved to. It was a waste of time and resources just for the sake of management, we had to follow their traditional process where as we could have adopted the advanced process. We all knew its a waste but still had to follow.
- Setting up my website. I was excited about trying to learn this process on my own with some assistance from videos and written instruction. But then I got to a place where I wasn’t sure what to do next and I felt like I was lost. I didn’t know where to turn or who to ask. I decided to leave it for a while. It has been a week and now I have found help and will get to work on it again.
- The most frustrating thing is feeling like I’m not in control of my time (or have no free time) due to competing obligations (work, social, church, etc.) or feeling unorganized. I also don’t like having responsibilities thrust upon me at the last minute. I value time to process and prepare for events.
- The most frustrating this I’ve had to deal with lately is not having obtained a professional license renewal. A former employer promised to cover the expense of renewal after I was let go, only to find out too late it wasn’t taken care of. I now have to go through the licensing process again, which is costly and time consuming.