• Godort@lemmy.ca
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    As soon as a metric becomes a goal, it stops being a useful metric. This is management 101

  • Blackout@fedia.io
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    Close them anyways and gaslight them when they complain. Tell them to open another ticket and repeat. This is called the Sisyphus method.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    One of our desktop techs was found to be opening/closing tickets for the work of processing tickets. It was strongly suggested that she not do that.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I had a supervisor insist we created 1-to-1 tickets for every individual system imaged. This was extremely tedious and arguably more work than the actual imaging (we did a fairly large amount of imaging)

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    I remember a director asking me to speed up getting a large order out before the end of the week even though I had already put in the best guess as a week later.
    I reminded him I work by the hour and not on commission and he was like “ooh yeah that makes sense, alright carry on”

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    Had this once, had a prize for most tickets closed. Every morning I’d be first to grab all the easy garbage tickets. I won.

    Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

  • egrets@lemmy.world
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    the receptionist filed another ticket: “My keyboard is missing.”

    Impressive. Voice dictation, on-screen keyboard, or they had a help desk that is actually slightly workable on mobile? (The third is imaginary.)

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        You have a more human ticketing system than any I’ve worked with if that’s an option!

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          Ah I forgot that these days old school contact channels are hidden and all you see are clanker chatbots

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      Or for modern times it’s a laptop dock so they just opened their laptop and entered the ticket that way