Not enough indians

Have you ever heard the saying that there are too many chiefs and not enough indians?

When I cheered in highschool, our coach used to tell us this all the time. I became very acquainted with the phrase when I cheered, and even more acquainted with it when I became captain my senior year. Having been on the "chief" side my senior year, I got to understand how frustrating it is when everyone else who is supposed to be an indian tries to run around acting like a chief.

WELL, now that I am in the workforce, I've found myself back on the indian side (joy). It's not always bad. In fact, it's not normally bad. But recently I have been getting extremely frustrated at work. Let me explain...

When I first starting working at my firm, there was one attorney and two paralegals (me being one of them). That makes one chief and two indians. Last year my boss hired an associate attorney. Technically speaking, since my boss still owns the firm and employs three people, that should be one chief and three indians (or maybe more like one chief, one sub-chief, and two indians). Instead there are two chiefs and two indians, and the two chiefs can't get their guidelines together. It makes me think of the movie, "Office Space," where the guy is trying to submit a report but each boss wants it in a different format. Pretty soon I'm going to take the computer equipment outside and smash it into peices. (Okay, I probably won't, but you get the picture).

I just wish that if there has to be two chiefs around here, they could go by a uniform set of rules. That's all.

Does this happen to anyone else at work? I'm sure it happens in companies that are bigger alot, because there are a lot of middle management positions in larger companies. I guess I should be thankful that I only have two chiefs!