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The “Decline” button is there for a reason. You can configure Google Calendar to delete declined events from your calendar. Your response will show up on the ot

The “Decline” button is there for a reason. You can configure Google Calendar to delete declined events from your calendar. Your response will show up on the other participants’ calendars as well, so they’ll know that you’re not coming and will either proceed without you or reschedule. You can also propose an alternate time, which can be seen as less standoffish.

vincentmarle 8y ago
> You can configure Google Calendar to delete declined events from your calendar. Ah that would be very helpful. The thing is, as engineering manager and gatekeeper to my team, I would like to make those RSVP decisions for people on my team. We can solve this with organizational/communication policies, but was hoping to enforce within GC as well.
- sigfubar 8y ago
  I’ve been in your shoes. Hats off to you for trying to do right by your team. I’ve had success with coaching my employees to refuse any meeting invite that would not directly help them do a better job. We’ve come up with verbiage to help redirect meetings to me so that no hard feelings could crystallize on the other side. This works except in a small minority of cases: some individual contributors enjoy their meetings. It’s not my place to stop them.
  - wastedhours 8y ago
    > This works except in a small minority of cases: some individual contributors enjoy their meetings. Also in a small minority of cases breaking up a developer flow to provide on the ground context in a meeting is better for the organisation than keeping the developer in-flow for another hour. Rarely, I'll concede, but it's worth remembering that few developers are paid to "code", but to create value for the organisation. The vast majority of the time that's done by coding, but sometimes (in those rare moments) that value is derived from a meeting.

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The “Decline” button is there for a reason. You can configure Google Calendar to delete declined events from your calendar. Your response will show up on the ot

by sigfubar 8y ago

vincentmarle 8y ago
> You can configure Google Calendar to delete declined events from your calendar. Ah that would be very helpful. The thing is, as engineering manager and gatekeeper to my team, I would like to make those RSVP decisions for people on my team. We can solve this with organizational/communication policies, but was hoping to enforce within GC as well.
- sigfubar 8y ago
  I’ve been in your shoes. Hats off to you for trying to do right by your team. I’ve had success with coaching my employees to refuse any meeting invite that would not directly help them do a better job. We’ve come up with verbiage to help redirect meetings to me so that no hard feelings could crystallize on the other side. This works except in a small minority of cases: some individual contributors enjoy their meetings. It’s not my place to stop them.
  - wastedhours 8y ago
    > This works except in a small minority of cases: some individual contributors enjoy their meetings. Also in a small minority of cases breaking up a developer flow to provide on the ground context in a meeting is better for the organisation than keeping the developer in-flow for another hour. Rarely, I'll concede, but it's worth remembering that few developers are paid to "code", but to create value for the organisation. The vast majority of the time that's done by coding, but sometimes (in those rare moments) that value is derived from a meeting.