There are probably less than 5 emails in our internal helpdesk queue this month that WEREN’T marked as urgent.
Urgent problems this month include: ‘The glare from my kitchen window washes out my laptop screen’, ‘How do I change the color of my folders icon?’ and ‘Client reports hearing faint mumbling from their org’s landing page’
I handled the last one personally, she had a forgotten tab with a looping podcast playing on very low for the last few days.
There are probably less than 5 emails in our internal helpdesk queue this month that WEREN’T marked as urgent.
Urgent problems this month include: ‘The glare from my kitchen window washes out my laptop screen’, ‘How do I change the color of my folders icon?’ and ‘Client reports hearing faint mumbling from their org’s landing page’
I handled the last one personally, she had a forgotten tab with a looping podcast playing on very low for the last few days.
When EVERYTHING is urgent, NOTHING is urgent.
“will the company go out of business if this isn’t fixed in the next hour?”
Litmus test for urgency