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Are you asking questions that you could probably answer yourself if you thought about them and did the research on your own? Maybe your Manager is just challenging you to be self-sufficient?
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Adding on to my previous comment, if I ask someone for regular status calls - it means I know you are incapable but I can’t swap you out for some reason.
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You're not relevant. Make yourself more relevant or interesting.
Are they better over IM? Maybe he prefers other modes of communication?
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If you don’t have a specific question, or escalation, why the fuck would you want to get a reply. Don’t you get enough fucking email. And what if the reply has action items. Not too thrilled about that extra bit of return attention now, are we.
Let this be a lesson to you, to manage by exception, and give people the space to show you how good (or, ya know) they can be
Just say it! The new check ins should allow feedback both ways! Bring it up and just start with whether they want to keep seeing those updates or is helpful for them.
I have the bad habit of only responding when there’s a question. If all is well, all I can probably say is “thanks for update” which I feel is the same as acknowledging verbally in a stand up call with others so the person gets credit for something they’ve sent
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I have an ED who never responds to my emails lol. I know for a fact he doesn't like me. But you need to do more digging to know for sure.
All I saw here at first was “I have erectile dysfunction”
Lazy manager or stupid questions?