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Friday, I got a mail from my PM shortly before I wanted to leave. Basically it was, hey can you check out whether this issue [which I hadn't even heard about] is somehow related to our system? Meeting is in one hour.

My answer: I guess not, otherwise I'd have been in the loop much earlier than one hour before the meeting.

I shut down the PC like a boss and went into weekend.

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    God. Damned. Right.
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    Is that "Like a boss"? Ghee.. I do that all the time but never thought it's "like a boss". I mean I do my 8 hours/day and whatever issues there are - they are no longer my problems. Not until next working day at least. Never considered that to be... Bald. Just sensible
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    Send tasks without advice before leaving = till next day broh!
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    The correct way to make it not OK for him to leave just then, as he had planned, would be to say something like, "there is a sev-1, and we need you to represent our team." Anything else, and a lack of representation is the PM's fault.

    Applicable quote:

    "A lack of planning and preparation on your part does not equal an emergency on mine."
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    Wish I could do that without fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty three escalations on my within an hour of the mail being sent on a Friday after 8PM.
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    @vlatkozelka it wouldn't be regarded as favour. Instead, the learning process would be that it's OK to schedule nonsense on a Friday afternoon. Before I can do the owing favour move you suggested, people need to understand that it even would be a favour.
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    @rutee07 yeah better implementing one thing at a time and making it right that botching up multiple things at once. ;-) Also, it saves a lot of time when the client wants something and you can directly discuss possible impact on other functionality.
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