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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tips for colleagues - 
If I'm looking for something you know off the top of your head, why wouldn't I utilize you as a resource? Seems like a much better use of time if you're right there and I ask you for something/information.

Just a thought! [/quote]

Because it makes you seem lazy.[/quote]

No, it's a use of a good resource. If you don't think of yourself as a good resource for a younger colleague, you're a sourpuss and need to get over yourself.  It doesn't do anyone any good to resource horde.  Of course, if it's something the employee has specifically been given or shown how to do, that's different.  
I'm the lowest on the totem pole and people ask me to find things ALL the time that are public information.  They sometimes go, "wow, that was fast!"  yes, it is the most recent press release on the Senator's web site, but since you're too old to know how the internet works (or you're on a powertrip and like tasking people), you had me find it.  In the time it took you to tell me what you were looking for, old person, you could have already had it.

it works both ways!

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This. I am young and in an admin/office manager position and while my boss respects me, my co-workers often ask me to do things for them that they should and could easily do themselves (with information I have given them). They either just don't want to or haven't bothered to become technologically proficient enough to find what they're looking for. They also think they can task me even though I don't report to them. I go above and beyond for anyone who respects my time, but unfortunately so few of them bother.

I'm well-compensated and like the enviroment otherwise, but it is frustrating because I am assistant to my boss and not to each of them. I also am aware of the time constraints of my boss and try my best to make his life easier - and that's why he respects me.[/quote]

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