yep, saved our butts a couple of times.
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raltoid@lemmy.world 1 year agoAlways remember the magic words when it comes to coroporate bullshit: “Can I get that in writing?”
People either start thinking about it seriously to avoid getting in trouble, or they make themselves look like idiots. Although it can depend on what level of management says no.
sip@programming.dev 1 year ago
tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 1 year ago
I don’t even ask for that anymore because it rarely leads to good ends. What I do now is send an email summarizing the dumb bullshit that they want me to do, describe the detrimental effects that it will have in excruciating detail, ask if there are any corrections and if my understanding is correct, and say that if I don’t get a reply from them by X time, I’ll do $DumbBullshitThing at Y time/date. It gets CC’ed at least one level higher than them in the food chain and also to my personal email address for CYA.
It puts the onus on them, creates a paper trail, and also places the blame on them when shit blows up because they asked me to do $DumbBullshitThing when the consequences were clearly laid out.