Of course you mean to interrupt. If you didn't mean to interrupt, you wouldn't have interrupted.
See, I establish my work rep early on by saying that out loud. I say it in a half-joking sense, so that I provide them with an out, but I usually don't cut them much slack in that area.
C: "I'm sorry to interrupt..." X: "Which means you're not going to, right? Ah-ha, ha, ah-ha-ha."
You don't actually care that I'm doing lots of other things. Your little thing is, according to you, the center of the universe, and anything anyone else is doing is by definition less important.
That's when I pull out: "I would love to, except I'm doing $thing for $person. I don't want to muck about with priorities; why don't you go talk to $person, and that way I'm absolutely certain as to how to spend my time?" Said as sincerely as possible - you wouldn't want to shortchange one of them!
And if they interrupt with an air of "yeah yeah whatever", then I take it to my manager with that question. "Hey, I'm doing $xyzabc, and $person wants me to do $thing. I just want to make certain - which should come first?" They learn pretty quick to do their own goddamned photocopying.
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Date: 2005-10-25 07:23 pm (UTC)See, I establish my work rep early on by saying that out loud. I say it in a half-joking sense, so that I provide them with an out, but I usually don't cut them much slack in that area.
C: "I'm sorry to interrupt..."
X: "Which means you're not going to, right? Ah-ha, ha, ah-ha-ha."
You don't actually care that I'm doing lots of other things. Your little thing is, according to you, the center of the universe, and anything anyone else is doing is by definition less important.
That's when I pull out: "I would love to, except I'm doing $thing for $person. I don't want to muck about with priorities; why don't you go talk to $person, and that way I'm absolutely certain as to how to spend my time?" Said as sincerely as possible - you wouldn't want to shortchange one of them!
And if they interrupt with an air of "yeah yeah whatever", then I take it to my manager with that question. "Hey, I'm doing $xyzabc, and $person wants me to do $thing. I just want to make certain - which should come first?" They learn pretty quick to do their own goddamned photocopying.