"Oh, didn't we discuss this the other day? I told you I was waiting for (access to an account/dataset/personnel) I should be hearing back from them soon though."

I have built so many tools to keep track of different tasks. I’m actually starting to find my groove and I’m missing less and less, but it took years before I got to that point.

"It's been on the back-burner while I deal with competing priorities. I'll pick it up again as I wrap up something else, unless you need me to prioritize this instead."

Here's the status boss: "I forgot this existed".

Happens all the time. Just be honest. Although I have the security of being in a job where I'm pretty sure nothing is going to happen to me unless I willfully kill someone or take cocaine at work or something. There are people who have been caught doing borderline fraud/double billing at work or leaving work quietly half way through the work day regularly; and the organisation's response was "we told them not to do that again". A missed task doesn't get anyone in trouble.

I had way too much going on to keep up with my emails. Then I went on holiday for 2 weeks and had a really busy time at work for 2 weeks with no time to check emails. Since then I've had a constant backlog of 500+ emails I haven't even looked at. I've set up a filter to put emails from my bosses and critical senior people into a seperate folder and answer these emails. Besides this I basically haven't even looked at anyone else's email for over 6 months. Nothing bad has happened so far so I guess it really doesn't matter that much if I check my emails and ignore all those tasks coming through there.

"Sorry, this fell off my radar. Squeakier wheels have been getting greased but I can prioritize on this task if it is of higher importance"

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"Haven't had any movement on that recently. Unfortunately, I need some info from insert name of someone on leave and they're away right now. I'll ping them once they get back."

Yeah, happened to me some weeks ago. What a great feeling. My work is done now, but I can't test. I can't even access the server this is supposed to run on, and the firewall blocks all traffic to the target system ... and it's due next week 💕

my lovely cresta

I have a team lead (mini-boss) who constantly puts me on the spot and I hate it. Acts like I should have everything memorized and that the job is everything. Fuck that, I'm going back to learning about random Marvel villains

i got a “you need to be better at reminding ppl when you are waiting on them.” i looked up the task in salesforce. it was never in my queue and only in his. i told him, “you and two other mgrs have two meetings a week to review queues, do you just never look at your own?”

he apologized but yeah. what an ass.