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I've been called out by some metric at my job for not doing enough collaborative work Bad Ash Send a noteboard - 22/04/2020 11:49:01 PM

Turns out I don't attend many meetings and don't answer a whole lot of emails. According to this metric, I'm utilizing less than 5% of my time collaborating. It was suggested that I try doing more to collaborate with my coworkers.

Never mind that I'm the dispatcher for 3 drivers and spend the first hour of every morning hammering out routes with their input so that everyone gets an equitable amount of work.

Never mind that I'm also the yard boss in a construction supply warehouse and have oversight of 3 warehouse workers. In this down time while most job sites are closed we are doing multiple projects to better utilize space in our limited yard.

Never mind that all day long I have sales people picking my brain about when deliveries went out, who delivered them, why they got delayed, etc. Today someone asked me about a delivery that went out in February(!) and after about 20 seconds of the gremlin with the Rolodex in my brain shuffling through all the old files I actually remembered what happened and why there was a problem with it.

None of that is collaboration because I have neither the time nor inclination to mark in Outlook that a long pallet was delivered via a box truck and we needed to use two forklifts in tandem to offload it. It's why I'll never get ahead because crap like this irritates the hell out of me.

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