Re:When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
by jkubrynski on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:53AM
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From my experience, especially in big companies (but not only) most of the feedback is negative. People are not sharing positive feedback, and when they contact your manager it's usually an escalation process. That's why it's so important to reach to people who support you or simply create a content you like (blog posts, webinars, etc) and say: "thanks, I found a lot of value here".
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Re:When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
by jedimastert on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:20PM
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> That's why it's so important to reach to people who support you or simply create a content you like (blog posts, webinars, etc) and say: "thanks, I found a lot of value here".
I've been trying to start up a blog this year (three posts in 7 months, woo!) and someone recently contacted me to tell me that my RSS feed was down and they didn't want to miss the next post. It carried me into the next week it meant so much.
Re:When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
by teachrdan on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:47PM
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I had a radio show in college (low power station, small college town) and a friend of a friend told me that, when he listened to the show while delivering pizza, he'd sprint to and from the customer's door so he could get as much of the show as possible. This was about the highest praise I could think of.
Re:When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
by gavinray on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:43PM
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I made a habit out of emailing complete strangers from the internet who wrote content or technology I really appreciated with a short "thank you" or "this is really cool".
To my surprise when I first started doing this, the majority of them reply back with a genuine thanks.