Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
by JohnFen on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:36AM
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> In the office it was hard to get people to stop turning up at my desk at a time convenient to them, regardless of what I was doing, to interrupt me.
Where I currently work (100% in the office, sadly), there is a coworker who did this to me regularly. He was causing a serious loss of productivity, and wouldn't stop.
So I started doing the same to him, stopping by his cube a few times a day at random to ask some legitimate technical question.
The end of the week I started doing that, he complained to me about my constantly interrupting him. It was causing him to fall behind in his work.
I told him "Of course, I'll start messaging you instead of stopping by. Would you extend the same courtesy to me?"
Where I currently work (100% in the office, sadly), there is a coworker who did this to me regularly. He was causing a serious loss of productivity, and wouldn't stop.
So I started doing the same to him, stopping by his cube a few times a day at random to ask some legitimate technical question.
The end of the week I started doing that, he complained to me about my constantly interrupting him. It was causing him to fall behind in his work.
I told him "Of course, I'll start messaging you instead of stopping by. Would you extend the same courtesy to me?"
He stopped needlessly interrupting me.