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Re:Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time by bgirard on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:48AM (#38251528)
I would appreciate the thoughtful gesture, but I would rather have 20 more minutes with my signifiant other than an umbrella. And that's the point of the article. Disrupting a work pipeline to answer an executive question might be fitting here. Sure they would have liked the answer to their question (umbrella) but they didn't want to lose 20 person hours to that question.

Good communication is key.

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Re:Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time by mcfedr on Monday November 13, 2023 @11:21AM (#38251950)
And spend 20 mins less waiting in there rain for them
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Re:Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time by inopinatus on Monday November 13, 2023 @01:35PM (#38253486)
The category error I'm highlighting is conflating a relationship with management.

Seems to be an epidemic of that around here.

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