These were popular at my workplace maybe seven years ago, and while I was into the idea at first, IMO it was impractical most of the time. Turns out it's a pretty unreasonable burden to place on people that they should read and follow instructions in a document in order to communicate with someone and to personalize their work approach for every person they interact with. The main context these make sense in is when…
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#22They both are based on the wrong assumption that people have to ask your opinion before contacting you, while communication has always been based on shared standards.
Normality exists. It's not something to tend to, but it exists and must be recognized and respected, and everybody is expected to do their share in conforming to normality.
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#24These were popular at my workplace maybe seven years ago, and while I was into the idea at first, IMO it was impractical most of the time. Turns out it's a pretty unreasonable burden to place on people that they should read and follow instructions in a document in order to communicate with someone and to personalize their work approach for every person they interact with. The main context these make sense in is when…
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#26The way to deal with unwanted interruptions is to ignore them and then later claim you were so busy you didn't notice. No downside to that. (Headphones help with this if they've forced you back into an office.)
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#27Its just such a weird intersection. First, you need people that are aware of their interpersonal pain points and for those problems to be deep rooted enough that an onboarding doc makes sense. Then, you need those same people to accept being emotionally vulnerable in a space others are going to use for blatant self promotion - in this case just being ignorant of your own flaws counts because you will write some dumb shit like 'I am data driven show me the facts' but in reality you will base decisions on your gut and a spreadsheet you threw together.
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#28It seems like something that enables and promotes mental illness and would actually be counterproductive to uniting people towards a common goal, and rather would develop pettiness and fiefdoms.