Work from home has been a disaster for collaboration. I know this for a fact because I’m a collaborator. My, sorry OUR, best work happens when I get the free time to work a document and can come over to your desk to make you work on it too. In a work from home environment you can ignore my slacks. You can’t ignore me hovering over you like a vampire. What are you doing at home? Watching Netflix? Come out and collaborate. Also, I hate my wife and kids. Why don’t you? Don’t you want a nice quiet place to collaborate? As a collaborator, I know it’s important to get face time with execs. That’s why in the office I can fully walk the floor and show everyone the doc we just made. They have to accept I’m doing work and collaborating. Work from home, they expect to see results only, which isn’t the point of collaboration. If you don’t understand this then you are not a collaborator and that is a ding on your perf review. So come into the office and collaborate, it’s for my, sorry everyone’s, benefit! Tc: 455k Years of collaborating: 12 #returntooffice
If I am your manager I think there are multiple things you need to be coached on before you can receive a promotion
I actually do like being in the office but this is a well executed burn.
Watching too many WW2 documentaries lately. A collaborator was someone that betrayed their home country to work with the invading Axis forces to provide information and basically rat out their friends and neighbors. This post made me chuckle when OP announced they were a collaborator.
Incorrect, I can say 'yeah, absolutely!' And still not do anything you ask. If I ignore your slack I don't fuck with you, and that's in OR out the office....
Sounds like you are unable to get anything done yourself and rely on exerting personal pressure to get others to do work you can take credit for. If it is truly in the name of collaboration - then why not zoom, or a good old phone call. There are many tools. People will only ignore you if the requests you are making are ones-sided (I.e you need their help getting your work done and there is nothing in it for them). Try to give more frequent recognition for people who work with you to produce something of value. Listen more to people about what their problems are and think about how you can create a win-win.
Giving other people recognition? That’s not how I get good performance reviews for collaboration. Sounds like you need to come into the office more.
How is it that certain people can be so bad at picking up on even the slightest waft of sarcasm, which seems pretty clear this post is metaphorically oozing with every disdainful sentence.