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Can't you just get back to them when you get back to them? Why should anyone know what you are doing down to the minute?
by MarcelOlsz 4y ago
Can't you just get back to them when you get back to them? Why should anyone know what you are doing down to the minute?
- eckza 4y agoCounterpoint: it's okay to set expectations for how you'd like to be interacted with, by your team members.
- ambrose2 4y agoSeconded. The person asking questions is just trying to get the questions into the queue. I doubt they are expecting an immediate response. And if they are, that’s a different question.
- pitaj 4y agoYeah, sounds like they should just message back "Hey, I'll take a look at these in an hour or so, after I get caught up"
- Mc91 4y agoActually I've told some people "don't struggle on something all day and then at 4:45PM tell me you haven't made any progress and ask for help" many times, and I still get the 4:45PM messages from them. It's not like the idea of telling them these things did not occur to me.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoEven if I have a relationship with someone where this is well understood, I still think it's helpful to preface these kinds of blocks of text with something like "Hey, nothing high priority here, so you can take your time before getting back to me"
- ambrose2 4y agoI agree, I like to start with “Not urgent, but”