Hi, friends!
How is your day going? I hope well and that you’re not surrounded by idiots.
Speaking of help wanted, are you good at asking for help? Do you not want to ask because you’re worried you’ll look less capable?
Typically when I struggle to ask for help, it’s because it’s at work and I don’t want to deal with having to redo work later. Which means that no one ever learns how to do their work to my standards, soooo vicious cycle.
Here, though, I have no such reservations with asking for help.
On that note, is anyone able to cover the NOTs on these 3 days?
Sunday Feb 19, Monday Feb 20, Tuesday Feb 21
I don’t let my ego get in the way of asking for help in most things BUT one of the few things I HAVE AN INCREDIBLY HARD TIME asking for help in is asking for financial help (damn pride there for some reason).
Everyone needs help once in a while.
I can take Sunday and Monday (that is my “weekend.”)
Thank you so much!
Tuesday 21 I can do. Maybe post a reminder before then in case I forget to do my own right now, because my mind can be a sieve?
Thank you!
I have a VERY difficult time asking for help for big things, little stuff not as much. But I do both as rarely as possible.
Apparently Elmo is such a thin skinned shithead that he fired a Twitter engineer who suggested that the reason why he’s seeing reduced engagement is because people aren’t interested in him.
I wouldn’t say bored… more sick of the egotistical narcissistic shithead.
I don’t have a problem asking for help, but I loathe entering customer service limbo where help requests get bounced back for more information, then handled incorrectly, then have to be escalated, then re-explained….
The obvious goal is to make help requests so painful that nobody bothers anymore.
I grew up in a family & culture where you didn’t have to ask for help, we just helped. It messed me up for the real world because I won’t ask for help but still expect it & get disappointed.
I had a new coworker coordinating a big event and I kept volunteering to do stuff with it, and then after a few weeks I pulled them aside and was like hey am I overstepping or is this okay? Because also sometimes it’s that weird situation of *I need help but don’t know how to ask without coming across like I’m assigning work to my peers* or possibly they also didn’t really want my help but didn’t feel like they could say no. Luckily they wanted the help and were glad I was offering so much instead of making them have to ask.
I’ve learned to step back and let the people who are key to things deal with them. I can be a resource but I try not micromanage. I feel like it is much the same as asking for help.
ill ask for help if i need it.. and outside of work if someone offers to help with something…or just helps out without offering im generally grateful for the assist
at work if i didnt ask for help i dont want or need any and i will only explain that politely the first time you try
im final qc….dont rush me…if the lines not backed up i am working exactly as fast as i need to…and i honestly dont give a shit about hitting the quota
if im on a go slow theres a damn good reason for it…and rushing things through to get the numbers higher on our end usually just means we are causing chaos at logistics coz they dont have the space or crew to get stuff out of the door that quickly…
anyways….for some reason ive had it out with a quite a few higher ups and doubt ive made too many friends there…..but i’m still final qc…so im doing something right
I hate asking for help with stuff that I feel like I should be able to do on my own, but with my physical limitations these days, I am having to learn to suck it up and ask for and accept the help I need. I still hate it.
I’ve never had an issue with asking for help for stuff for the kids when we were seriously broke (food pantry, winter coat/boots from a local charity, etc.) but if it was just me or just us adults, I wouldn’t have.
Also… hey! I can post again! I’ve tried several times over the last few days but the cursor in the text box kept jumping around and I would suddenly be typing a word in the middle of another word (so lithiske [like this]) or it would delete half of what I had written.