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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jzb@hachyderm.io ("Joe Brockmeier") wrote:
RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116890429736816268
I’ve made a few VPs unhappy in my corporate days by refusing to cater to their self-induced frenzies.
“But my boss wants this tomorrow, you have to drop everything! They’re a VP!”
“They’re not my VP and their lack of planning isn’t my team’s responsibility.”
To be clear, I tried to be a team player and to respond quickly for real urgent situations. Need to respond to a zero-day announcement? Yes, we’ll jump for that. Sure! The VP just has a QBR and wants one more bucket bullet point on the slides? Or didn’t plan ahead for the analytics they want? That’s a shame.
I always fought false urgency because I wanted the ability to respond when something was legitimately urgent, without being burned out or burning out others. (I might also have a minor oppositional streak. Maybe.)