I wish there was some way of making clear to the account people I work with — despite what they seem to believe, I don’t actually work for<\/i> them — that the time I spend on the phone with them updating them on the status of their projects is time I could be, you know, working on their projects<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I’m just sayin’.<\/p>\n
Not to belabor the point, but this is a tremendous pet peeve of mine. I know my job; I know the schedule. I know they’ve got people above them calling every fifteen minutes, probably because those folks in turn have people above them<\/i> who are calling every ten minutes. But I also know that account people have a nasty tendency to make promises their butts can’t keep, rather than setting realistic expectations, and that they also tend to think that their<\/i> projects are the only ones that matter, indeed the only ones that even exist in this whole big corporate universe. Well, sorry, kids, but here’s the score: you are not the only account person sending me work, and everybody says their particular job is urgent. It’s all<\/i> urgent, okay? So just take a number and chill; I’ll get your project done. But I’ll get it done a lot faster if you quit bugging me all the damn time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I wish there was some way of making clear to the account people I work with — despite what they seem to believe, I don’t actually work for them — that the time I spend on the phone with them updating them on the status of their projects is time I could be, you know, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-that-bugs-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}