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I default attend without accepting as constant rescheduling and re-accepting is not productive I started doing this for the same reason but it resulted in anot
by dvtrn 6y ago
I default attend without accepting as constant rescheduling and re-accepting is not productive
I started doing this for the same reason but it resulted in another problem: meetings started getting double booked or even booked in triplicate.
So now I actually “Respond without comment” so the person at least knows I’m attending and presumably other people will know I’m in a meeting already at 1pm.
Yet people STILL seem to adamantly refuse to actually look at the scheduling assistant in Outlook.
One side effect of covid is that I’ve developed a very good skill of enforcing my availability to others who seem just fine trampling over the best laid plans without even TRYING to communicate about it.
Or when they do, it’s:
“Hey your calendar says you’re out on Friday, do you have 30m for a quick zoom Friday at 2?”
“My calendar says I’m out?”
“Yes”
“Then I guess I’m out”.
- brentis 6y agoMy biz is decent about not double-booking on top of existing tentative mts for some reason, so that isn't a problem. Too lazy to see what attendance score I'm skewing by not accepting mtgs.
- prepend 6y agoThis happens to me quite a bit and I used to wonder what was going through people’s minds. If my calendar shows I’m busy or out of office, then I can’t meet. But then I asked some people and they told me that most people’s calendars are not dependable and have all sorts of garbage. People have “auto accept” turned on and all sorts of weird behaviors. I try to keep my calendar accurate and either accept or decline real stuff and ignore/leave tentative things I don’t care about. My normal line is “schedule any time free on my calendar that’s convenient for you, ignore any tentative.”
- dvtrn 6y agoPeople have “auto accept” turned on and all sorts of weird behaviors. That's bravery.
- prepend 6y agoTypically stupidity or loneliness. I guess there are people who click random buttons during setup. One person I met had auto accept turned on and only decided to attend on the day of the meeting. It’s fascinating to me the world of personal disorganization.
- dvtrn 6y agoTo be fair, when I was an IC it was far easier to decide the day of if I was going to attend a meeting because aside from standups and sprint planning/retro, meetings were few and far between. ...and good lord do I miss that right now.
- prepend 6y agoNothing against that, but that’s when tentative makes more sense. I tentatively accept many items for similar reasons, but I work to always attend stuff I accept.