Posted by noa on June 12, 2003, at 4:09:11
In reply to Re: Just tired of it (work stuff) » noa, posted by Greg on June 11, 2003, at 18:42:20
I like the t-shirt idea a lot!
Thanks for asking your boss and I love his answer!
We have to leave two voice mails, too. One for the boss and one for the office manager so the support staff knows and for logistical stuff. But I also always leave one for my two--soon to be one :( --team-mates because we always cover for eacher other while out. Now I'm also supposed to call the half-boss at home, which I find an unnecessary pain in the a** but didn't fight really because it wasn't worth it.
And the critical info thing for urgent matters--that wouldn't be a problem for me. But to assume that a sick person would answer the phone immediately or call back immediately and manage to catch them at their desks--just seems unrealistic. And sometimes, they can get the info from me via a returned voice mail message anyway. Sometimes not, of course, but they could say so in their VM to me that direct contact is essential. It would be a rare event, imo, though, for something that urgent.
BTW, interesting about supervisors being available. This must be true at my place, too, but I don't call them when they are out. And believe me, questions do come up that I need to ask them. But I either try to find the info some other way if I needed it sooner rather than later, or I wait. W-A-I-T. Remember when we were little kids and our parents taught us this concept? It requires containing our anxiety for a little bit, but I think most of us learned how to do it. One of my bosses clearly hasn't mastered the skill. The other just needs to always be the BOSS. In fact, I really thing the other supervisor, the senior one (the anxious, micromanaging one), better watch her tail!!
Thanks for the info and support. I just might copy and paste the section you wrote about your company, and have it with me, just in case, at my meeting.
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