More often than I care to admit

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    3 days ago

    “It’s been on the back-burner while I deal with competing priorities. I’ll pick it up again as I wrap up something else, unless you need me to prioritize this instead.”

  • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    “Oh, didn’t we discuss this the other day? I told you I was waiting for (access to an account/dataset/personnel) I should be hearing back from them soon though.”

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      8 hours ago

      If you’re going to lie at least don’t make it someone else’s fault. Lie if you feel comfortable doing that but implicating others to cover your own ass is pretty immoral

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    4 days ago

    I have built so many tools to keep track of different tasks. I’m actually starting to find my groove and I’m missing less and less, but it took years before I got to that point.

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    4 days ago

    Here’s the status boss: “I forgot this existed”.

    Happens all the time. Just be honest. Although I have the security of being in a job where I’m pretty sure nothing is going to happen to me unless I willfully kill someone or take cocaine at work or something. There are people who have been caught doing borderline fraud/double billing at work or leaving work quietly half way through the work day regularly; and the organisation’s response was “we told them not to do that again”. A missed task doesn’t get anyone in trouble.

    I had way too much going on to keep up with my emails. Then I went on holiday for 2 weeks and had a really busy time at work for 2 weeks with no time to check emails. Since then I’ve had a constant backlog of 500+ emails I haven’t even looked at. I’ve set up a filter to put emails from my bosses and critical senior people into a seperate folder and answer these emails. Besides this I basically haven’t even looked at anyone else’s email for over 6 months. Nothing bad has happened so far so I guess it really doesn’t matter that much if I check my emails and ignore all those tasks coming through there.

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    4 days ago

    “Sorry, this fell off my radar. Squeakier wheels have been getting greased but I can prioritize on this task if it is of higher importance”

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    3 days ago

    “Haven’t had any movement on that recently. Unfortunately, I need some info from insert name of someone on leave and they’re away right now. I’ll ping them once they get back.”

  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Yeah, happened to me some weeks ago. What a great feeling. My work is done now, but I can’t test. I can’t even access the server this is supposed to run on, and the firewall blocks all traffic to the target system … and it’s due next week 💕

  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I have a team lead (mini-boss) who constantly puts me on the spot and I hate it. Acts like I should have everything memorized and that the job is everything. Fuck that, I’m going back to learning about random Marvel villains

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    3 days ago

    i got a “you need to be better at reminding ppl when you are waiting on them.” i looked up the task in salesforce. it was never in my queue and only in his. i told him, “you and two other mgrs have two meetings a week to review queues, do you just never look at your own?”

    he apologized but yeah. what an ass.