I need to write everything down. If it does not exist as text I will not remember. Also forgetting where I wrote what down.
Write it down where you wrote that down
This is why 95% of my communication at work (that isn’t just banter) is via text and/or email.
I really hate that my work has a policy of deleting all chats and emails older than 6 months… And most of my projects last for longer than that, so you’re typically missing most of the emails from the start when you’re at the end.
This seems like a very bad idea! Can you share the reason for it?
I’d say a good 50% of the problems I am trying to solve at work are a direct result of the elimination/vast reduction of administrative positions in the technical fields. One of the main drivers was how computers made it “easier” to file things, but locally that also coincided with major recessions/austerity measures and 30 years later we’re seriously paying the price.
Great idea to get rid of the record keepers but not actually teach the technical people a digital version of the filing system/enforce the retention of buisness records including technical reports and decision logs. Not like there is a legal requirement to keep those or anything 🙄
It’s so if we’re ever sued over anything then we’ve only got 6 months of history that we’re liable for during discovery.
Lawyers figured out it was a nightmare going through 20+ years of emails, so the ‘solution’ was simply to just not keep records for very long.
Technically you can archive important emails, but they’ve made that harder and harder to do and it’s not always like you know what’s going to be important later, so it’s really easy to not save something you should have.
Oh god, I recently had a conflict about this. Records people are like, “we hear you have a room full of records, they are marked as past retention policy we are coming to shred them, please make sure someone is available to give us access”
We have one admin left and she fucking rules. She’s saved these from shredding before and she messages me panicked, saying they aren’t listening to her that they are still required etc. I’m getting ready to literally fite someone and my boss is like, “let’s just tell them we don’t have them anymore 🤷 I don’t feel like arguing with these people.” He rules.
My bosses instructions are chatgpt. I don’t listen to any of them, ever. I do, however, have to spend hours a week explaining why he’s being lied to by the dumbass AI.
I have found that if I don’t focus on the person talking it helps. But I still write things down.
I make people wait while I write things down and repeat it back. They can choose if they are more annoyed by that or by me not doing it 🤷♀️
Oh, my PTO was rejected again? Guess I’ll be taking micro-vacations on the clock whenever I feel like it, then. I was hoping to save y’all the trouble, but that’s cool. Loud & clear, bossman. 🤷🏼♂️
If drifted away from my own point, while I was the one telling the story
I noticed that when this happens, it is because of the structure or content of the sentence. There is a trigger point that causes the drift. So when the sequence is repeated, drift occurs at virtually the same spot.
The solution is to identify the drift spot and force yourself to keep focused through it.
What’s going on with that flesh bucket
You drifted away mid writing this meme even.
