Something about incentives

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18 Comments

Godort@lemmy.ca · 58 pts · 325d

As soon as a metric becomes a goal, it stops being a useful metric. This is management 101

Mozingo@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 325d (2 replies)

Why tf is "stole" censored?? We can't even discuss crime now?

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 325d (1 reply)

mabye it was engagement bait?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 325d

i see what you did they're

Blackout@fedia.io · 26 pts · 325d

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 · 20 pts · 325d (1 reply)

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 · 7 pts · 325d

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)

Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 325d

He is an agent of capitalistic chaos.

xylol@leminal.space · 13 pts · 325d

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"

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 325d

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.

teft@piefed.social · 10 pts · 325d
egrets@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 325d (5 replies)

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.)

kemorg@szmer.info · 7 pts · 325d (2 replies)

Called them?

egrets@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 325d (1 reply)

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

kemorg@szmer.info · 3 pts · 325d

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

Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 325d

Or for modern times it's a laptop dock so they just opened their laptop and entered the ticket that way

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 325d

Called and transcribed by the lowest tier help desk tech or call center.

dastanktal@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 325d

Gamification of the system. I love it