I'd be tempted to respond with "Use your words, Jeff". But then I am a mere minion.
How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
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Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#22I find the claim that bezos sees “most of those emails” quite hard to believe. Must be thousands of them
how many people know the address though?
As the sometimes recipient of these complaints, it seems that customers go looking for any somewhat high-level person with a published email address.
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#24I'd be tempted to respond with "Use your words, Jeff". But then I am a mere minion.
Unfortunately, people like us who respond to that sort of thing like a normal human (as opposed to a brainwashed corporate drone who lives in terror of the master's displeasure) tend not to do well in the corporate world.
The trick of corporate survival, as observed in those who can actually hack it, is extreme compartmentalization. They become two people: one who watches the abuse from a distance as if it were happening to someone else, and then a normal self that is functional enough to do the grocery shopping without bursting into tears. The problem is that very few people can sustain this compartmentalization (also known as: dissociation) for more than a few years. It tends to play out badly (memory issues, alexithymia, autoimmunity) in the long term.
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#26If it's common it cannot rally be a big deal. Also drop everything to investigate? Sure why not, if you are at Amazon and you don't mind the culture at least you are probably getting paid for your conformity. But in the end it's 100% just a gimmick, the machine marches on, even if there are structural/process changes resulting from these emails overall they doesn't have much to show for it since 2018. And if it's jus…
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"Sprint" is an agile buzzword, it does not imply speed or urgency.
A "sprint" is a unit of time which defines the frequency of meetings where teams re-evaluate their immediate priorities. Usually somewhere in the fortnite-month range.
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"Sprint" is an agile buzzword, it does not imply speed or urgency. A "sprint" is a unit of time which defines the frequency of meetings where teams re-evaluate their immediate priorities. Usually somewhere in the fortnite-month range.
Pretty sure we all understand that on here, and I second the comment above yours.
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#28I'd be tempted to respond with "Use your words, Jeff". But then I am a mere minion.
Unfortunately, people like us who respond to that sort of thing like a normal human (as opposed to a brainwashed corporate drone who lives in terror of the master's displeasure) tend not to do well in the corporate world. The trick of corporate survival, as observed in those who can actually hack it, is extreme compartmentalization. They become two people: one who watches the abuse from a distance as if it were happe…
Yeah but how cool would you feel at parties being able to tell people "I once got fired for telling Jeff Bezos to go fuck himself" ?
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#29> Bezos forwarded it to your boss, with only a single character added: "?."
As an armchair typographer, I think we need to stop insisting on placing sentence-terminating periods inside quotation marks.
It would have been clearer this way.
> Bezos forwarded it to your boss, with only a single character added: "?".
Re: How do you respond to a one-character email from your boss's boss's boss? (2018)
#30I'd be tempted to respond with "Use your words, Jeff". But then I am a mere minion.
I've had a few managers/execs that must have read this book and taken it to heart.
I've found ignoring the zero effort message to be moderately effective. Not ignore the work... like actually go deal with the incident or whatever. I just avoid feeding into the loop of it. Some time later I'll casually let them know how it went.
Sometimes they're persistent. If you don't respond quickly they might send another question mark (no joke), or escalate.
When they do escalate I tend to present it as 'Oh yea, we noticed that on the monitoring system and I dealt with that afterwards'.
This could be a complete fabrication, I just don't like to encourage them. Was it you, or the queue?