Bosses who send texts saying "Got a minute?" with no context are history's greatest monsters.

[ebooksyearn@thepit.social]

@APBBlue my favorite note from a boss was when I was at DISA and we had to filter classified stuff out before transferring to the un-class side so people could do their every day jobs

[ebooksyearn@thepit.social]

@APBBlue In the note field for some un-classified document was "CLASSIFIED. Mike - SEE ME"

[techlifeweb@indieweb.social]

@APBBlue @stacey_campbell see https://nohello.net/en/ share and enjoy

[ebooksyearn@thepit.social]

@APBBlue RIP Mike

[stevegis_ssg@mas.to]

@APBBlue

My boss is very literal. I had one of these recently and I opened the meeting with "Am I laid off?" and she seemed shocked.

[maxleibman@beige.party]

@APBBlue [typing indicator in Teams starts and stops again repeatedly for fifteen minutes]

[klausblog@mastodon.social]

@APBBlue ohh, true. Another variation on slack: Hey, you around?. Congrats on the raise.

[crawfordlong@mastodon.social]

@APBBlue Someone needs to tell bosses that unexpected Friday meetings are unnecessarily stress-inducing.

[apbblue@thepit.social]

@maxleibman lol that too

[apbblue@thepit.social]

@klausblog Thanks!

[markc568@beige.party]

@APBBlue This kind of message really sends me into a bit of a terror spiral, running through all the possibilities.

Thinking this is caused by my #AuDHD

[queenofnewyork@newsie.social]

@APBBlue Having been that anxious employee helps

[jason844@mastodon.social]

@APBBlue Sweet!

[raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com]

@APBBlue So much.

[apbblue@thepit.social]

@ebooksyearn

[jaykass@mastodon.online]

@APBBlue
Also people who provide no real estimate for how long the conversation is that they need to have with you.

Got 15 mins to talk about the new Mario movie coming out?

Now that’s a winner.

[jaykass@mastodon.online]

@APBBlue @maxleibman
And then it’s just: “you got a sec?”

[ghostradio@mindly.social]

@APBBlue looks at time. nope sorry, all out of minutes!

[vonxylofon@witter.cz]

@APBBlue Yeah, my ex-boss (and she's a great one) would schedule "Quick chats" for raises, stock options and stuff like that. I told her if she could at least add "Good news" to the invitation, and she did from then on. I think she genuinely didn't realise it was an anxiety-inducing thing otherwise.

[emily_s@mastodon.me.uk]

@APBBlue I've started warning about doing that when I have introduction meetings with new managers. I can't think of a single one over my career I've not needed to have that conversion with