As long as the company is listening to older employees who hate change over the rest of us Allscripts will not be able to move forward. I realize that they have invaluable institutional knowledge, but they have to accept that some of it is outdated. There has got to be a middle ground here.
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@btsp+1foNGaxF and @aczd+1foNGaxF
Kudos! You both get lots of Internet Points for those comments. Spot on and funny. :)
@addj+1foNGaxF
Believe it or not, some of us actually are cynically amused by this board because there's always some messed up example of how dysfunctional this company really is. If you can't laugh about things, you've lost a key part of humanity. Nothing is perfect.
I don't think there are any disagreements here that a few double Cheer points can't fix.
Culture is changed now
Seasoned staff are who consistently get ‘er done & don’t waste time on social media sites whining like a teen about a company’s imperfections.
@5ysk+1foNGaxF - There are definitely a lot of long-term (10+ years) employees in this company. I know of many groups/departments that are staffed if not entirely, then nearly so, of long-term employees. In my personal experience, those groups/departments are the ones most likely to produce results. Even if they are dealing with the same process chaos and the continual upending that happens here, the long-term employees are the ones that just "get stuff done". My experience with groups/departments that have a lot of newer employees has been less than stellar. It's not the willingness or enthusiasm that makes the difference, it's the ability to cut through red tape and find suitable resources for solving problems which is based on history and experience.
I'll take a grumpy "old-timer" who can get me in touch with someone to help with an issue or knows the history of a client or product over an enthusiastic but clueless new hire any day of the week.
Replying to 25+ years. You are the exception; not the rule. And nobody was there to drag it down. They were All In. It didn’t matter how much you cared; how well you did your job; whether you went the extra mile; you were perp walked like you stole something. You saw it happen to many people you worked with. And you know it was wrong.
@4wjy+1foNGaxF: There are a number of employees with well over 20+ years of service with the company. You would be surprised to learn just how many of us there are. Unlike the younger generation, we found a career and stuck with it. We have been through numerous acquisitions and mergers, survived numerous layoffs and reorganizations. We have dedicated the majority of our careers helping to provide working software to the customers that provide our paychecks. We are not here to drag the company down in any way. We are here because we always believed in the mission of this company and/or its predecessors.
Allscripts has more "process managers' than . Get out mission critical areas have staff. They have moved out of the software development model. Not so long ago they their "center of excellence " another "process management group responsible to remove duplication and cost ... Promote 2 directors for a group of 6.... Lol
There are older employees left? I seriously doubt it.
That first sentence is so completely wrong and off-base I am left wondering if this is a masterful trolling or if I should be concerned at the alarming level of naivety and lack of understanding how the real world works? Because this whole post sounds exactly like what a candidate for Allscripts Management would posit.
Leadership does not now, and NEVER has, listened to regular employees regardless of their time in service. If leadership actually listened to the experienced "old timers" that remain, this company wouldn't be in the complete mess that it's in now. To imply that it's the "older" employees holding the company back is completely ludicrous and dangerously stupid.
We do NOT need more unproductive, PR-friendly programs that drain resources and talent here just for the sake of change - the only kind of change needed is in Leadership, and a renewed focus on basics like software/business development and providing our customers with working products and effective Support.
Change is inevitable, and no rational adult thinks otherwise - the problem is that at Allscripts, changes are made without any forethought to negative consequences or concise ideas on how those changes will actually improve anything. Allscripts has been on the "change only for the sake of change" school of thought for well over a decade now and most of the change planning I've seen is basically of the "throw s--t at the wall until something sticks" variety.
Whoever you are, whether this is a troll or you're really insipid/vapid enough to believe your own words I'd keep the following in mind:
Right now, that very very thin line of Experienced employees, who are the only ones possessing the technical/social/historical/institutional/customer relation knowledge that keeps everything working, is literally the ONLY thing keeping the company afloat.
There are still quite a few people who've been around the block, and they're the ones keeping the lights on right now because leadership has utterly failed to provide leadership.
Dear wet behind the ears. The "Senior" employees have seen a lot of the buzzward changes over the years. It's not that they are afraid or reluctant to change. We are feed up when another game changing structure is implemented, only to fail again. When you get your 3 year anniversary... You will begin to see the patterns
Care to give a couple of examples? I don't think there are many 'career Allscripts' folks left!