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I ran into this issue at a large corp. I was a subject matter expert on how a certain product worked so literally would get 500+ notifications daily from (mostl
by sf4lifer 4y ago
I ran into this issue at a large corp. I was a subject matter expert on how a certain product worked so literally would get 500+ notifications daily from (mostly sales) people asking the same questions. I set an auto-reply to anyone that mentioned me that included a link to FAQ and directed them to SEs or CS folks who were responsible for answering these sort of questions. I also linked a recording to the last webinar where I went over what's new and answered questions and a link to the next upcoming one. In the auto-response I set the expectation that a response from could take up to 5 days. This more or less solved that issue.
As for my own channel surfing to avoid working. That's a WIP. Best advice I can give is to maintain a task list. When you catch yourself surfing, go to the task list and see if there is something you can knock off.
- jimmywetnips 4y agoThat's an excellent solution. I think part of it is also being comfortable and firm and not teaching others that "Hey he's the go to guy and he answers questions immediately and is super helpful". Eventually the problem sorts itself out. And even if it doesn't, so what, you're one person. There are limits and real costs to being a human operating switchboard.
- theGnuMe 4y agoThe first person to write a chatgpt slack bot called Anton that reads all of your local corp docs will make a mint (with security controls) Free idea folks.