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> the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar as someone who leaves themselves open to hear out others with their "hey do you have a
by jareklupinski 2y ago
> the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar
as someone who leaves themselves open to hear out others with their "hey do you have a second to check this out" ideas
y'all are missing out
- zwnow 2y agoTrue, and if someone tries to avoid communication in whatever way I highly doubt they actually work on meaningful tasks...
- y1n0 2y agoOr we work on meaningful tasks that require extended periods of focus and concentration.
- nicolas_t 2y agoYea I always try to block off at least two days a week (ideally 3) of complete focus and move meetinga, conversation etc in other days. Both are useful and are needed
- zwnow 2y agoUnless you are some cerrah i highly doubt this.
- Uptrenda 2y agoNo one who is in engineering would say something like this. I can only conclude your job is auxiliary to engineering. In which case: I don't think someone who isn't an engineer should be talking about what is and isn't possible with respect to how engineers work. It's also a good idea that when engineers do tell you how they work -- not to ignore everything they say. Since Afterall -- you're not actually the one doing the job.
- zwnow 2y agoI am a software engineer and most of them I have met throughout my career do not work on tasks that require 24/7 silence. Basic communication is important for every task and if you cant handle that you are simply not suited for the job.
- michaelt 2y agoIn my experience a lot of large corporations are absolute distraction machines. Urgent message! It's time to complete your annual anti-bribery training refresher. Urgent message! It's World Mental Health Day, and we're rolling out a new employee health and wellbeing policy. Urgent message! Don't click 'yes' if you're offered an OS upgrade, crowdstrike doesn't support the new version. Urgent message! All employees are required to complete mandatory training on chair usage. Click here to get started now! Urgent message! The production website is down, please join the conference call we'd like to ask you about query explain plans. Urgent message! Would you recognise a phishing attempt? Take 5 minutes to run through this refresher training and keep our corporate data secure. Urgent message! The lyon office squash club is looking for new members. A professional needs a strategy to stay productive despite the noise, while not missing the occasional needles in the message haystack.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoAlso don't forget the cow-orkers: Urgent message! Do you have a moment for a quick call? [It's never quick.] Urgent message! Hi $yourname. Urgent message! Hi, so I hit this problem where this-and-this doesn't work. Here's an irrelevant part of the logs. We need to sort this before deployment tomorrow. [After couple of these, eventually your PM tells your team to stop fulfilling such requests from other teams, and instead first ask what the billing code for that is, or if they wouldn't rather file a Trac ticket.]
- ychnd 2y agoOh come on. There are lots of tasks where not avoiding communication will set you back long time or even prevent you from finishing the task at all.
- blitzar 2y agoI have checked your busy / free calendar information and it seems you do nothing around here. We thank you for your service but it is no longer required at this organisation.
- hnlmorg 2y agoI obviously cannot speak for every business in every country, but at least in those I’ve worked at, you’d never get fired for based solely on the number of available slots in your calendar.
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- samspot 2y agoI've never noticed the busy indicator preventing people from asking me this question. And when I message others, the busy light is merely an indicator of how long I may need to wait for a response. My advice to anyone reading is not to be deterred by status lights and calendar blocks.