Mad_Man

I'm returning back to work from a 3 day conference and I can tell you, the dear readers of this bog, that I wish that I was spending my time washing an entire village's clothes.  I work in the field of logistics; shipping, receiving, storage, transportation, inventories, etc.  The conference was lead by so called Subject Matter Experts dealing with the departments in logistics.  So for myself, I understood the conference to be about standardization and how better communication through department heads could help with efficiency and common problems that the departments may have.  There are six cities that have the same operation as mine, but there is little to no communication between us.  So back to the conference,  my hopes were dashed when I arrived and found that it really had nothing to do with my department but was really about logistics as a whole and how the other departments are affected by our operations.  So it was a 360 degree change and was sadly disappointing.  I feel that in order to be in the position that most of the participants were in, we would have to know about logistics.  Sadly, the so called subject matter experts labored away with slide shows and briefings about the grand scheme of things.  I also found to my disappointment that these sad SMEs had little to no knowledge on our departments and could shed no light on our operation. These people are suppose to be the most experienced member of our work force.  I beg to differ on the meaning of Subject Matter Experts.  From what I've seen, they are just cronies that were put in a position just to suck money away from the operation a pretend that they know what they are talking about.  Although all of this sounds like . . . . MPs in Government.  A little Uganda while I am working, how nice.