Posts by SandPaper@infosec.exchange
 (DIR) Post #1971594 by SandPaper@infosec.exchange
       2018-12-14T02:31:02Z
       
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       @jerry I've seen this movie. Now you're just recycling content.  d:
       
 (DIR) Post #AP46yD6dwz2PmxgaS8 by SandPaper@infosec.exchange
       2022-10-29T14:55:29Z
       
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       @tara @jerry that’s A LOT of policies. At a prior company, I walked into 100+ policies. Had a consultant help me consolidate them down to 28. Still too many at current $company but at least the mantra is “how can we make this fewer?” And “this is more of a standard / guideline than a policy.”As for my own burn out, it hit hard in 2018-2019. I was wearing every hat at a small company. Finally, I just had to move on and I was lucky enough to find somewhere great. It still took about a year to come back to even mentally and it still goes up and down. I imagine there’s no One Size Fits All solution but I find these help me but aren’t perfect:- I block off my calendar for the start and end of my day to avoid meetings bleeding into the transition. This helps set a hard stop at the end of the day. This is hard. There’s always one more thing or my perfectionism/desire to help others accomplish their goals gets in the way. - I also block off consistent chunks of my week in a recurring series for my own work / plans to do. This gets edited or shuffled as needed as things come in or I plan my week. But at least having it blocked off helps keep it more available to me when people are throwing meetings around.- I don’t accept meetings that don’t have an agenda. I have a detailed agenda in my own. Tell me what you want to get out of the meeting or why you need my time. If no agenda, I ask for this info before accepting. It’s usually “decide on X” or “answer these questions.” This helps keep a meeting from derailing. Too many or bad meetings can kill your feeling of accomplishment because they suck time from your progress on work.- Empathy. So how does this help burnout? A lot of my job is driving others to remediate things. I need them to do something. Having empathy helps build rapport and people are likely to complete tasks on which I depend. It’s also reciprocal and they understand my challenges. This leads to less stress. - I set a weekly list of things I want/need to accomplish. I’ve learned to keep this short. If it’s long and incomplete at the end of the week, this can appear like failure mentally.- This may be counterintuitive, but avoid doing things yourself that are the responsibility of others. Let’s say you need something accomplished from someone and they’re unresponsive/behind but you have the ability to do it. If you do it once, it’s likely to always be on your plate moving forward.I could probably keep brain storming and typing but this is already a lot. This doesn’t touch on things you could do outside of work to help burnout. Hopefully it’s on point and you find it helpful.