Subj : How To Communicate
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Mon Nov 03 2025 08:45:16

  Re: How To Communicate
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Nov 02 2025 14:25:00

 > It's easy to find examples online of people making fun of millenial and Gen 
 > communications issues - not knowing how to leave voicemails, wanting comms t
 > be immediate, expecting an exact response...
 > 
 > I'm becoming increasingly annoyed with people with active careers, so I'd sa
 > safe range would be 28-50. People who don't understand how to use collaborat
 > tools.
 
I recently read something from a member of Gen Y or Z that claimed that part of
their collective issue is that the literacy rate for their Generations is lower
than the previous ones.  I didn't look it up to confirm this for myself.
 
I spent a brief while doing security... granting initial access and some
password resets, etc... and that can be a very thankless position.  Luckily I
was only interim until we found someone else and got them trained... they had
done it before and actually enjoyed it!... so it wasn't as bad as being stuck
with it.  ;)

As for the people who want to call meetings for things that can be an e-mail, I
tended to find there were as many who were younger than your "active career"
ages who would do that.  They liked to come into work about 9am (after many of
us had been here an hour or two already), spend most of their day doing ???,
and then schedule meetings for 4pm, which was after most of us would be gone.

This was before COVID and the adoption of Teams, so those were expected to be
in person meetings.  The persons in question were usually "analysts" who
somehow thought their position put them "over" development staff. I told my
teams that if someone called a meeting well after their normal business hours
and wasn't someone in their chain of command (i.e. my boss or above!), they
were not obligated to attend.
 
That fixed it pretty quick.  ;)
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