Monday, April 28, 2014

Trouble in paradise.

Hi all,

Since my last post not a lot of new things have been happening in the Amnesty world. Its a pretty quiet month actually, but i thought i will keep you all updated anyways.

Me and my supervisor have been aiming to make some fairly large changes for the WA office and in particular the Media and Communications department.

We felt these changes would benefit us and also the organisation as a whole, however, not everyone seems to feel the same way.

At the moment i have no control and no authority to update anything on the website, we are not sure what the reason is behind this but we are working to find out.

This means that if i or anyone else in the WA office wants something put onto the website we must send it to the National office first and then the interns there upload it.

This frustarted me a lot as i feel like they are getting all the experience and skills necessary and I'm missing out - i feel like all I'm doing is forwarding emails to them.

I being the strong headed person that i am, kicked up a fuss about this.

The reasons behind why i can't  upload things onto the website are something i can't go into and there is to many excuses i have received, however, i have decided to do the necessary training out of my own pocket and in my own time to learn how to use the back end system so that hopefully, in the future if i stay with Amnesty i will have the knowledge and skills they want.

Im due to keep meeting with the national team and further debate this issue.

Ill make sure to keep you all posted.

Till next time.

Sandra

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