Often times, people would walk up to the devs and ask if we could work on this thing. Often times, especially if they were fat cats in the company, we'd happily

Often times, people would walk up to the devs and ask if we could work on this thing. Often times, especially if they were fat cats in the company, we'd happily switch gears to appease. Our manager homie eventually told us like "Look, I'm your manager and I delegate the tasks that have been requested of us. Have whoever comes up to you to talk to me, even if it's [SVP of Engineering guy]." And so we did and it streamlined everything a bunch.