When talking the value of support staff, I often hear (and have made) arguments like "engineers are really expensive, why should they spend their time organizing their calendar?" Often underlying this argument is an implicit "this makes sense because y...
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When talking the value of support staff, I often hear (and have made) arguments like "engineers are really expensive, why should they spend their time organizing their calendar?" Often underlying this argument is an implicit "this makes sense because you can pay support staff less than an engineer."
I've realized this argument works even if you pay the support staff as much as the engineers.
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@theincredibleholk organizing the calendar is an interesting one because, like...
we see a TON of value to support staff. we have been part of SO many things, everything from company-wide projects to grassroots activism, which absolutely could not have happened without a skilled person taking notes.
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@theincredibleholk but we've found that leaning on those people to do routine scheduling is a waste of THEIR time (except for the huge events that can't happen otherwise)
and anyway, as someone whose primary tasks are creative ones, getting our calendar the way we like it is deeply entwined with understanding the ebb and flow of our own creative energies and making sure they actually happen. it is not a thing we could possibly delegate.
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@theincredibleholk it doesn't get said often enough, so at the risk of repeating ourselves we'll be more explicit: note-taking is a difficult skill that not everyone can do. it is not a skill that people automatically have just because they know a lot of things, and it can make a great deal of sense to have someone specialize in it.
