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At what point do you start calling people direct reports? I find this turn of phrase really jarring
by yarper 8y ago
At what point do you start calling people direct reports? I find this turn of phrase really jarring
- shawn 8y agoWhy does it feel jarring?
- yarper 8y agoI think it's because it implies that their job is to report to you -like you're really the brains of the operation rather than just in a different role
- stronglikedan 8y agoReporting hierarchy is there for a good reason. If you report to multiple people, you're the one that's going to have a bad time when they're not aligned with each other, each trying to give you a different list of priorities.
- yarper 8y agoWhy don't they know what's important and what's not?
- jcheng 8y agoIn a larger organization, "knowing what's important and what's not" at all times can be practically a full time job in and of itself. A lot of engineering teams like to protect individual developers from meetings and conference calls so they can focus on development, but that necessarily means developers will be missing context.
- jp_sc 8y agoWhen you are managing people that manage other people, so not everyone _direct_ly reports to you.
- hotdog97 8y agoSpotted the millennial.