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by Kadrith 5243 days ago
I'm often on the other end of this; assigning "10 minute" tasks to people. What I try to do is have a common place where I will put these with the expectation that it is checked at least once per day; normally OneNote. I don't expect all of the tasks to be done each day, but I also don't want them sent into a black hole. I leave it up to the team to figure out when they can accomplish the tasks based upon when I need the work done or to provide me with feedback on feasibility.

If I have an urgent item that has to be done RIGHT NOW there may be an exception but in four years of being in this job I've only had a few of those. Those types of events are usually patient safety events where a patient's life is literally on the line and some piece of technology is acting up.