On Travel...

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Question:

What do you do when you are a known repository for information that everyone goes to and, though you are happy to give assistance wherever you can, it starts to cause you to fall behind in your own duties?

Answer:

Write on your whiteboard in a prominent location that you are on business travel to a far away location. Then make a printout using Red Arial Font at size 56 pt. on a Landscape layout, with the wording to the effect of (or similar to) these words:


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On Travel.

Leave message at (Extension number goes here).

Unless you are (person who is expecting whatever report / project status / whatever)...

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Then Tape one to your chest, and have a co-worker that understands your plight tape the other to your back. It is simply amazing how much work you can get done when you are "on Travel".

Pictures to follow later... mebbe...

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