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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish37•3 days agoWhenever I’m in the middle of something and I get a message from someone high up on the org chart. “Hey, got a moment for a quick question?” Me, internally: ‘Ah, fuck.’ Externally: “Yeah, totally!”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•3 days agosee I just ignore that shit until I actually have a moment, if it were important then they’d have said what it’s about I’m not IT. but I can’t imagine being IT would change my response and given that my job is often 4 hours straight of running from one fire to another, it could be a while until they get a response
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•3 days agoThat’s part of the gig in many IT roles. You have to be at least partially available for IT help requests.
Whenever I’m in the middle of something and I get a message from someone high up on the org chart.
“Hey, got a moment for a quick question?”
Me, internally: ‘Ah, fuck.’
Externally: “Yeah, totally!”
“ticket number?”
see I just ignore that shit until I actually have a moment, if it were important then they’d have said what it’s about
I’m not IT. but I can’t imagine being IT would change my response
and given that my job is often 4 hours straight of running from one fire to another, it could be a while until they get a response
That’s part of the gig in many IT roles. You have to be at least partially available for IT help requests.