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In reply to Unapologetically Curmudgeonly. I suspect you don’t know how much effort goes into accurately maintaining availability on a calendar system like Calendly. You’re seeing it as someone outsourcing all the effort to you and a website, but actually they’ve had to either set recurring availability with specific parameters (my calendar has already kinds of conditions and rules set to ensure I don’t end up double booked) or manually enter available slots for you to ch
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In reply to Ms. Norbury. I get what you’re saying, but I’ve also seen the approach not work. Then you have to go to your director or even HR and it comes out that you ignored a problem for a year and don’t even have one documented conversation, and you look and feel silly for not investing that fifteen minutes six months prior Sort of a meta comment I guess, not specific to Clare but to many “I did nothing and it happened to work out” letters There is a middle groun
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In reply to Busy Middle Manager. I think the difference here is that, as the OP pointed out, the end result was not a problem. If nothing had changed, Claire would still be meeting all her goals. You’re right that people shouldn’t be afraid to have conversations, but it’s also true (as evidenced from many letters and comments here) having minor productivity level variations being questioned when the result is still satisfactory is incredibly demoralizing.
In reply to Busy Middle Manager. We don’t have any reason to believe that the OP would have blindsided Clare? The OP basically said she was monitoring the situation with a new perspective. It’s good that the OP took the time to watch how things went with that new perpective before talking to Clare given that Clare was meeting all her requirements.
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his billet was “swept,” meaning that, even when the hiring freeze eventually lifts, we will no longer be able to hire for that position. This was a rule implemented by DOGE and outside the hands of anyone in the agency. That’s not exactly how it works. Billets will be rebalanced in some tbd manner. Some positions will be refilled. Many will not.
In reply to Generic Name. One possible framing/face-saving would be to emphasise that you’re expanding, so the role is expanding: ‘Thanks for your help over the last months but we don’t think you’re ready yet to handle what we’re going to need in this role in the future”. And communicate early.
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In reply to Glengarry Glenn Close. The EA doesn’t get the Calendly though, the exec does. It’s a bad look, asking someone for time (when that someone is above you in the org chart) and then sendingca Calendly. I’ve had them forwarded to me, but the I, the EA, am on the meeting. It’s not thecdnd of the world but it’s an awkwardness you probably dont want to start out with as you network with Big Fancy Exec.
In reply to Ask a Manager. I agree, the convenience is great, and for me it’s appreciated if from someone I already have a working relationship with. Outlook is especially nice because I have access to calendars and there is no ambiguity about availability. Where I draw the line is when a stranger wants my time to sell me something and I’m being asked to plan to meet them around their schedule.
In reply to Unapologetically Curmudgeonly. You might consider that you’re the outlier here – I don’t really use calendly, but we basically use Outlook calendar for just about anything and scheduling meetings that way is the absolute norm in many, many jobs. I’d be extremely confused (and annoyed) to get a list of possible times by e-mail from a colleague instead of just scheduling a meeting on Outlook.
In reply to amoeba. Outlooks works fine for internal meetings and I use it frequently for that. For external folks we do business with the norm is throwing out some times that work for my side after checking Outlook. For cold call emails from strangers essentially asking me to find a time that works around their schedule, that’s just off putting and tone deaf to me.
In reply to Busy Middle Manager. Except the issue was not actually an issue, because all the work was good and done on time. LW took a minute to sit back and observe before jumping on something that might not actually be a problem. That gave them time to see that 1) the productivity stuff balanced out and 2) even if it had not, the dip on WFH does not have a big enough effect on the work to actually be something to bring up.
In reply to Unapologetically Curmudgeonly. Wait, if you have a secretary, why are you engaging with any of this at ALL? Set up a template response in your email client that’s like, “Please contact So and So at [email address] for all scheduling. Thank you!” You could also forward the emails to your secretary, but I assume you’d like to train people to go to them first, and this way you put the effort back on the sender, which you clearly prefer.
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