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I had a long meeting with the Cap Projects Team today and a chance to swap war stories. The situation the project managers and their teams are in is just insane.

So yes - always validating to find out you are not alone! *G*

And despite what himself says below I still think there's good stress and bad stress. Working at ex org could be very stressful but for 80% of the time I was there it was productive and everybody was in it with you. Some of my best memories of the old place are of working til midnight with the CEO, Directors and random staff to finish bids cos we were all in it together (that changed when my old CEO left and the new one joined).

At the new place I can't imagine the CEO or any of the Director's rolling up their sleeves to muck in and make sure anything works. There's downward delegation with apparently little awareness of how stressed and under-resourced those below them are. I'm sensing a general mood of resentment, disillusion and people feeling like they're being set up to fail which is not a great place to be at the beginning of delivering a massive programme!