Want to know a sad story? I had a great idea for an internal application that would optimize a process in the company. My idea gets approved and.. guess what? Later it gets cancelled because Change Management didn't see a reason for me to get API rights on the company pipeline, which was what I needed to get my application going. I pitch my idea and they don't care and shut me down quickly because it's just another ticket they want to close asap.

Another guy in my company, openly incompetent but big buddies with the higher-ups gets his idea approved without effort. They open the doors for him and talk to Change Management to get him in. Then he's seen as Mr. Big Ideas while this guy doesn't even know how to use a terminal (I'm not joking). Even the girls admire him but he's a complete idiot who just smiles a lot.

It's whom you know, apparently. And bureaucracy is a piece of shit. So are cronyism and corruption.

I felt your sadness when I read you actually have a 'Change Management' department. Yikes.

We had something similar called the "Integration Department" and it was more about saying 'No' to ideas they (and their friends) didn't come up with.

Ex. After successfully implementing a Service Bus event processing for orders, I could easily listen for various events throughout the order process (taking the order, processing payment, shipping, etc) and send the customer notifications (text/email, etc). My mistake (according to their review) was I compared it to how you can track your Domino's pizza order

The Integration Department summarized we're not a pizza restaurant but a professional enterprise system and we would not lower ourselves to pizza delivery (and it wasn't a feature our customers asked for)

About 6 months later the head of our eCommerce department implemented the customer order notification system using my Service Bus framework.

I didn't quit my old job for this type of shit, but I should have. I had someone from my team make a chart to measure how much money the company was wasting due to ignoring our ideas and PoCs. It was on the low seven figures when there were layoffs due to "market changes"

@PaperTrail Does it ever! It also has: Finance Department, Procurement, you name it, every single ITIL department or department a company can have! lol.

One of the other companies I worked for also had an Integration Department and at this one retro meeting the Devs were pissed at them because apparently both teams couldn't agree on things for some reason.

During my time at this current company, I got met with constant no's and I got fed up with it.

Nice to hear about your idea. It sounds efficient and usable, having value, rather than with finance bros try to sell all the time.

That Integration Department sounds dumb.

I have a similar thing happen to me when Management asked for group feedback on a session and then when I gave my great idea, they ignored it and later... pawned it off as their own. What a piss off. They're not getting ideas from me anymore.

@JsonBoa Damn straight! People need to respect themselves. If there is no respect in the workplace, it's time to find another one. Yeah "market changes" or "feeding the CEO's bonuses". lol

Does Mr big ideas have API access? If he is that dumb and has access; abuse the hell out of it.

Also bureaucratic fuckups like this should be handled by your direct manager.
If your manager doesn't care about you being able to do your work you should not do any work. Just write a script to automate opening the same ticket to change management until it gets approved and don't do anything else.

You then went through the proper procedure and it didn't work. They block you from completing the task and you put everything in motion to remove that block your job is done.

I've done shit like this with processes that were this stupid. Making it their problem or amplifying it enough so it becomes management's problem always worked for me.