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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't ask a more senior colleague for information you yourself can track down easily. It makes you look lazy, uninformed and like someone who doesn't realize her time is less valuable than her senior colleagues' time. [/quote]

OP, I totally get what you are saying. Drives me nuts when someone asks a question that google, the intranet, or common sense would tell them the answer to. Yes, I may know the answer, but interrupting me reduces my efficiency and looking it up yourself probably wouldn't take you any longer than asking me. Plus, I expect people to show judgment and an ability to problem solve. I certainly don't want them running to the clients when they don't know something--our clients expect us to find the answers! If you can't show the judgment about when it's worth asking something vs looking it up yourself, and you can't problem-solve enough to find out obvious things....well, you can ask me your question, but if you keep doing it I'm going to think less of you.

I would also include in that category the calendar issue and other admin stuff--if someone else can look at my calendar to see if I'm available, why can't they do that and just send an invite? Why ask me to check if I am free? I wish everyone in the office (top down) was responsible for keeping their calendar up-to-date and being able to rely on the scheduling feature to set meetings. It would save so much time and reduce my email by 10 percent, I swear.[/quote]

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