Ok, MR CEO. I have a message for you. It’s a simple one and I want to you listen very carefully to what I have to say. Ready? Here it goes:
When it’s obvious that I’m working heads down on a problem, please don’t walk up and tell me a joke.
Now I realize you’re a little uncertain about the gig you’ve just taken. Only being here a month and all, I can understand how concerned you might be. After the absolute fucking mess you’ve found you’re a little concerned about what’s going in engineering. Because of that fact, I can understand that you want to check in with all aspects of the organization to make sure people are getting shit done. But please don’t come up to me and do the check in “thing” by telling a joke, starting a conversation about my pint glass or asking me if some general area of work is all good.
When you do that, you disrupt the mind from the problem I’ve got it wrapped around. What that means is that I lose time working on the problem, become less productive and end up spending the next arbitrary amount of time getting my mind back to the problem. That is, after I write this fucking blog post.
I understand you want to act like the cool hip CEO so you can get the inside information. You want everyone to believe that you’re one of the guys so that they will talk to you as such. But I’ve got a little fact to share with you:
You’re not.
Now please let me get back to doing my job and please go do yours.
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