What’s the best way to justify slow response times or missed deadlines??

[29dogs]

Seriously, just wanting to know this.

 

[Zwielicht]

For slow responses, if you have to use something like Microsoft Teams, set your status to "busy". Corpos will see that and think, "Oh, right, they must be busy because the little red icon says so!"

These people are really by the book, so if the software tells them you're busy, you must actually be "busy".

As for missed deadlines, that one is difficult. I used to miss deadlines with stuff all the time because my previous job was really bureaucratic, so if something needed to be taken care of by "the tech department", nothing would actually get done and the deadline would get missed. You best bet is to just find a way to pin it on your manager, like by saying that the manager didn't "manage" you well you enough and that's why you missed it. This works unless your manager's manager (jeez...) is the one who hired them, in which case, they'll defend your manager and blame you anyway. You know, because if their hiring choice is bad, then it makes them look bad.

Ugh... those environments...

 

[Rem]

Seriously, just wanting to know this.

Depends on what the work is, who is asking and what it is really.
I have a whole handbook of excuses.
From
- Busy doing training/meeting
- was zoned in working on xyz
- teams is just not working (showcase some old error i saved for the occasion)
- Black out/Power outage

If it's actual reports, I would make an excuse if needed on some stupid logic they wanted and say its taking much longer because they want xyz and flip it on them.