Cog in the machine...

1. Go to the Salaried Job Classification website (link available only inside Boeing’s firewall) and click the first two letters of your SJC job description. Then select the last two. When you’re done you should be at a page that looks like my "UANR" jobcode.
   
   
2. Highlight your job description, copy, and paste it into a Word document.
   
   
3. In the Word doc, highlight a few of the important descriptions/responsibilities listed in your jobcode:

   
   Staff Analyst Level 4
   Exemption Status: Exempt
   
   Develops creative and innovative solutions for complex administrative issues to improve organization operations. Acts as advisor to middle management in all administrative decision making. Serves as spokesperson for organization. Functions as advisor on major projects and functions of organization and as technical expert for organization on major policies and procedural issues. Develops new concepts and techniques and exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches of business operations for organization. Oversees maintenance of operational records to ensure availability of accurate data for planning purposes and participates in analysis of reports and presentations for senior management. Conducts business reviews. Implements long-range strategic objectives and plans, financial and non-financial recommendations, and strategic operating plans. Provides guidance and leadership to administrative staff.
   

   
   
   
4. Go to Boeing’s Policy Plus website and click the Search link.
   
   
5. Do a "Text" search on each highlighted phrase in your job description.
   
   
6. Read every page of every document in the list, if for no other reason than you can then make sure you’re not breaking some obscure rule that they can use against you at their whim. For me, that means, at a minimum, I need to read the stuff covering:
   
   • Staff Analyst: 15 procedures and policies
     
   • Exempt: 70 procedures and policies
     
   • Operational records: 264 procedures and policies
     
   • Business reviews: 2055 procedures and policies
   
   
   
7. Repeat Steps 3 through 6 for every other role/responsibility you believe necessary to assure yourself that your butt’s covered from management’s vindictive retribution.
   
   
8. If your boss gives you a hard time about reading them all, look him/her in the eye and ask ‘em if THEY can tell you which Policy&Procedure documents you should be reading about your job, instead. If they can, start reading those. If they can’t, thank them sincerely and continue reading from your list.
   
   
9. If they continue to give you a hard time, pick up the telephone, call the SPEEA office (682-0262), introduce yourself, tell them what’s going on, answer are few subsequent questions, then hand the receiver over to The Boss, so the union can ‘splain it to ‘em, Lucy...

-- Bill, who would really prefer "partnering" instead...