my coworker doesn’t take the trace that she’s interrupting me
A reader writes:
My firm is usually fairly informal, collegial, and “open-door.” An worker on my crew (not a direct report, however I overview numerous her work and am senior to her) who appears to lack numerous widespread sense about skilled norms tends to stroll proper into my workplace after I’m working and start a long-winded query with out ready for me to acknowledge her, make eye contact, or in any other case point out that I’m accessible in any approach.
I’m making an attempt to be accessible to reply questions as a result of she’s having numerous efficiency points and has tried in charge me for not “serving to her” sufficient, however the fixed interruption is driving me loopy. I’ve tried placing on a present of not wanting up from my laptop till she’s a couple of sentences in and performing confused and saying she wants to start out over as a result of I used to be specializing in my work, however this doesn’t appear to faze her in any respect. I’ve tried sporting headphones and pretending I don’t discover that she’s there (identical outcome) and I’ve tried setting every day conferences along with her and inspiring her to deliver all of her questions then, however that doesn’t appear to discourage her from coming in 5-10 instances per day with one off questions.
I reply this query — and two others — over at Inc. in the present day, the place I’m revisiting letters which have been buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.
Different questions I’m answering there in the present day embody:
- CEO assigns work to my workers with out speaking to me
- Folks ask me for favors after which by no means thank me
