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I got so tired of defending my time at a previous job that I just started saying “Is that what our producers needs me to do?” Shuts them up every time. Generall
by jbluepolarbear 5y ago
I got so tired of defending my time at a previous job that I just started saying “Is that what our producers needs me to do?” Shuts them up every time. Generally, the people that interrupted me were people that had no authority to ask me to do anything: marketers, ad agents, sales.
- pc86 5y agoI can't even imagine the hell of working with someone who responds to every request with "Is that what $THIRD_PARTY needs me to do?"
- MattGaiser 5y agoThat hell is seemingly the point.
- jbluepolarbear 5y agoThen you’d be the kind of person I’d say this to. I am very open and accommodating for individuals on my project that are trying to get their task done. I’ll sit down and help, guide, whatever is needed. I won’t allow a marketer, ad agent, or sales person to demand that I stop everything I’m doing and address the issue they have, only to tell them that it isn’t going to be done this sprint and you’ll have to talk to our producer to get that task. The only people that I’ve worked with that were intrusive, pushy, and demanding of engineers immediate time were the people that were trying to go around the producer because they already knew their issue was low priority for the team.
- Aeolos 5y agoThat is exactly my experience too.
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- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoI just instruct my guys to say "I have to prioritize what I'm doing right now. Go talk to HeyLaughingBoy if you need me to work on something else." They have no problem doing that. Do it often enough and the people learn to just come straight to me instead.