context and usage is so important here. I have co-workers where everything is asap, asap. We all ignore these requests because its basically a part of their email signature. Me, on the other hand I rarely, rarely use it... so whenever I drop it, it means get that shit done right now.
A few months ago I got to the point where I just didn’t care. So I’d get a call and they’d say “what’s your capacity look like right now?” And I would just say it’s easier for them to tell me the actual date they need it and I’d make it work. Which I think made them feel bad about “demanding” something. I’d usually say whatever date they tell me I’ll have it to them before but just in case.
This happens to me constantly. I’m currently still having to work on a project from 2 months ago. Usually takes about 3-5 days for a project, sometimes a little longer. It’s because the customer is just piece milling it together. Keep changing drawings, what they want where and all kinds of shit. It was supposed to be a “all hands on deck” and is something the company isn’t going to make much on in the long run so I’ve just put it on the back burner and moved on to other stuff until they get what the want figured out. It’s also a massive project size wise but not money wise and I’ve almost quit twice because of how pissed I get at it.
Is that the only thing your working on? I can’t imagine a life like that. I’m at 120 projects just my dept, but I’m also on other projects ran by other departments. No clue what total number of things I touch a year is. 200 maybe?
It’s like 80%. I help out on other projects if they need me. This software suite is by far the most complex suite I have ever worked on and every location is very heavily customized so it never gets boring.
This definitely varies by industry - there are a lot of items that they need to drop everything to focus on one thing until completion. I always try to send more positive ones like: 7:00am - Hey Carla, is it realistic I can get a complete response to this by 7:15am or should I prepare our team for a later timeline? Please advise - call or text me with any questions or concerns.
If I ever get an ASAP email - I'm getting a phone call within 2-3 minutes if I haven't already answered or responded that I'm handling and that's including from people that work for me.
Really just depends on the scope of each project. My dept has 14 projects going on right now and that is an unsustainable number for us.
I inherited my current project. It was supposed to be a year long ordeal but instead it’s tracking towards 2 years, is in complete disarray, is $13m over budget, and my company laid off 19% of our workforce last Wednesday. This is very fun
So not so much cringeworthy, but didn’t know where else to put this. so we get on this Zoom call with some consultants. Our VP signs on. His computer audio and video is on but for some reason he doesn’t realize it and he’s trying to dial into the call. we can hear him dialing. He types in the wrong buttons and very loudly goes WHAT THE FUCK and everyone hears him on the call. Amazing content.
I did something similar a couple of weeks ago in a call with our biggest customer but the "WTF" was muttered under my breath instead of said out loud. It was still audible and the series of "MUTE YOURSELF" messages that I got from coworkers was hilarious.
honestly, this is another great point. I've been trying to shift our workplace culture to not call us unless its urgent. some of the old timers still call for everything, but for the most part its working.
So I joined a union today. I'm not in a union shop so there probably won't be any direct benefits for me but a lot of people in my industry are striking right now so figured I'd support how i can
not co-worker related, but we recently switched to SAP, and it's just one giant clusterfuck. also wastes approx. 4.6 trillion pieces of paper.
This is backwards to me. If it's urgent, pick up the phone and call me. If there's relevant information I need, follow up the call with an email. If you send me an email and immediately follow it up with a phone call, your request is getting lost in my inbox for a while.
Phone call = need immediate response Text/work platform message = please respond within 1 hr Email: please respond within a day or two (not counting your weekend/days off)
This lady is walking me through some things on a client she’s handing over to me and she keeps using code as a verb. Change text in a box or on a word document? Code that as xyz. Update a field from a drop down or literally anything? Code that as abc. It’s fucking annoying. And she says carbon copy, the whole two words, not ‘cc’. And she says it a lot.
She was literally retyping the company’s updated name on a word doc and was like ‘we’ll want to code this to say Stupid Co so it matches the other stuff.’
I'm still under the impression that 99% of employees WFH still anyways, so I'm sure it's remote. (Says the disgruntled, jealous, 'essential' worker whose job has never been 'remote')
Mine was never any more remote than it was before either. But, the welland acceptance of teams and zoom has definitely made my meeting life much better
One of my coworkers has a daughter that does Apple customer service, work from home. Apparently you're supposed to work completely closed off from the rest of the world (door closed, no human interaction, etc.) because reasons. My coworker told me she had to do a teams call with the company and her baby started crying. One of her coworkers reported her for having a baby around. She had to take off the rest of the day and was suspended for an additional day. Guess Apple got scared a baby was going to start singing top secret Apple information.
Narc coworker is a twat but I don't think you're going to find too many companies that are cool with their WFH staff routinely taking care of a baby while working. And it's not because they're worried about stolen info.
Kid actively sitting and lap and hearing the sound of a cry are two pretty different things. Sounds like it was the second