The department you work in at your company... are they said to be deemed

[Deja Q]

'invisible' and therefore lose out on funding?

And while no department would ever do it, surely the way to look visible once again is to stop doing anything for a day and see what happens? :wow:

[Kutjara]

1. That strategy could backfire badly.

If the department does nothing for a day and absolutely nothing bad happens, you know you're screwn.

[thefool_wa]

6. That aint no lie

The "call out protest" is a double edged sword if you are unsure of your true need/value to the company for whcih you work.

If you are going to stick it to them by not doing the work you need to be damn sure that your lack of work will cause a major catastrophe.

[SPKrazy]

2. we're the afterthought department

as in the budget is developed and we are an afterthought

:shrug:

[femmocrat]

3. We're so invisible, we are are dispensible, I fear.

The arts are always the first to go.

[mainegreen]

4. Not my department. The company *exists* because of the $$$ we bring in.

We're coddled in some ways. Other departments however need to get their shit together or things might not go so well for them.

[thefool_wa]

5. OMG Yes!

I work for the workforce management dept for a customer service outsourcer so I am one of 8 employees who are not generating revenue with our hourly rate (we are part of the center overhead).

this means we are invisible when it comes to:
1) Promotions and giveaways
2) Bonuses
3) Pay raises

However, without us all of the hours that they can bill to our client don't get assembled, assimilated and forwarded to the client corporations.

So, yes, one day of missed work in this dept and things start to fall apart real quick. We have even considered staging a "call out day" to protest our seeming "unwanted child" status, but that went out the door when we realized that it would just mean we all had to do twice as much the next day.

Corporations suck!

[XemaSab]

7. We're responsible for being billable ourselves

so we earn our own salaries plus the salaries of the admins, IT, HR, and marketing. :shrug:

[Generic Brad]

8. Nope. We're front and center

That makes us resented and causes us to lose out on funding.

I suspect that pretty much every department in today's corporations lose out on funding with the exception of the executive branches.