Timeline for Is it unprofessional to leave a note while you are gone for a break?
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| Jul 26, 2015 at 8:47 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @enderland: I wouldn't call this a "professional" environment. I'd say it is an environment that requires strict adherence to arbitrary behaviour standards. "Professional" gets the job done and gets paid for it. | |
| Oct 12, 2012 at 16:57 | comment | added | Arpith | @enderland: I agree that the people that become management usually do spend a lot of time away from their desks. But the problem lies in the fact that these same people expect people working under them, to be AT their desks. Thanks for the answer though. | |
| Oct 10, 2012 at 14:15 | comment | added | Joshua Aslan Smith | I am personally for sticky notes, but I thought that Outlook personal calendar was relevant to enderland's answer. | |
| Oct 10, 2012 at 4:49 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | @enderland: Hmm. I'd be interested in hearing from someone who actually works in such an environment. (I'm glad I never have.) | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 22:24 | comment | added | enderland | @KeithThompson in some more professional environments (say a corporate office with lots of executives or visiting groups where having a super professional image is important) this may be an issue, I guess | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 21:55 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | I frankly don't understand why a sticky note would be considered unprofessional. Maybe I just haven't worked in an environment where it would be. In the past, I've had a few hand-written sticky notes ("back soon", "out to lunch", etc.), and I'd just put the appropriate one on my monitor screen. If somebody had a problem with that, I might ask them what planet they're from. What am I missing? | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 21:52 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | @JoshuaAslanSmith: Yes, but some people are still going to just wander by your desk to see if you're there; checking Outlook (or something similar) may not always be convenient. | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 19:50 | comment | added | Joshua Aslan Smith | If you guys use outlook and people look at each others' calendars then just putting in time away for errands or lunch on the calendar could be another way to notify via electronic means. | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 19:12 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | If you want something more professional looking/permanent than a simple printout, you could laminate it or stick it in a protective sleeve of the sort used to put unpunched paper in a 3 ring binder. I got the latter idea from a coworker who has a set of those she uses whenever she's working in a lab and away from her desk. | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 17:27 | vote | accept | Arpith | ||
| Oct 9, 2012 at 17:27 | comment | added | Arpith | Point valid only if you have inter office communication software at office. Which I do. Hence accepting your answer. Printed page it is. Thanks a lot. :-) | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 17:23 | comment | added | enderland | @Arpith even if they are through person/person, if you still have that software you can see if people are "available" or "away" or "inactive" or "do not disturb" or whatever other options you have before walking over to their desk | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 17:15 | comment | added | Arpith | Saw it now. You are right in saying that employees can't be expected to be at their desk all day. My questions however were about leaving notes at the desk. Sorry if I caused a digression there with my follow-up. And to answer your second question, the interactions are person to person and not through inter-office communication software | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 17:11 | comment | added | enderland | @Arpith I had actually edited another paragraph before your comment - people in most office environments have meetings or other things during the day. I don't know what your particular situation is, but I would say it's rare for most office employees to sit at their desk all day every day regardless of breaks | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 17:10 | history | edited | enderland | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2012 at 17:08 | comment | added | Arpith | Follow up question: Do we really have to wait for someone to come back saying they had a problem because of your absence to identify a bad methodology? IMHO it wouldn't be just unprofessional but just plain wrong if someone came back saying they had a problem. | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 16:52 | history | answered | enderland | CC BY-SA 3.0 |