Being swamped is normal and not impressive

Re:Being swamped is normal and not impressive by Aeolun on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:02PM (#32333499)

I think my answer to that is something of the kind of: “Work is going to be prioritized one way or another. If you don’t tell me which one you want me to work on first I’ll pick the one I like best, and we’ll see which of the problems never gets finished.”

I think this only works if you’ve already set boundaries on your time though.

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Re:Being swamped is normal and not impressive by visarga on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @03:10PM (#32335631)

I usually work on the latest task, last-in-first-out system. If someone has a higher priority they should bug be more to get bumped up. The reason is that I want to finish at least a few tasks without delays. For large tasks I ask them to select the ordering.

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