Re:Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
by travisjungroth on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @11:32PM
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I had a new manager start his first weekly meeting by asking if there was anything on fire. People filled the ensuing silence with recent annoyances. Of course nothing is on fire right now (and I get it’s a metaphor). If something is “on fire”, I’m not waiting till the Monday meeting to bring it up. I’m not even going to attend the mandatory meeting while I put it out, if that’s when it happens. That’s the definition of on fire.
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Re:Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
by tempestn on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:12AM
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To be fair, your new manager doesn't know that's how you operate. It seems a reasonable question to me, with the expected answer being no. But why not ask just in case? You wouldn't want to be the new manager who just launches into new business not realizing that one of your developers is too timid to interrupt you with the major breaking bug that's currently live, or whatever. Once they get to know the team and can trust that you'd be on top of that kind of thing, it's another story.
Re:Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it
by travisjungroth on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:29AM
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Maybe I’m too sensitive to the phrase “on fire”. I can’t imagine someone at a factory starting a meeting the same way.