Calendar Invites
The minimum amount of effort given to a Google calendar invitation.
What is a response? (Yes/No/Maybe/Propose a new time)
The times of day you are expected to be "online".
What are working hours? (In your timezone!)
You can see someone's working hours in Google Calendar by the white blocks of time. The diagonal striped grey times are their non-working hours. If you haven't set this up, please do!
When planning time off, this is the first thing you should do.
What is inform my manager?
A day reserved for productivity!
What is Wednesday (USA/EMEA) or Thursday (APAC)?
Along with every calendar invite, I include this list of info so attendees know what will be discussed.
What is an agenda? (for the meeting)
The main tool we use for disseminating information.
What is Slite?
As an employee, I request time off in this platform.
What is Justworks?
Aretha Franklin sang about the reason why if you see someone's calendar blocked on Wed, you won't request to override it.
What is respect(ing someone's time)?
This recently released song by Post Malone describes the feeling when you join a meeting where the invite had no context.
What is "Why Am I Here?"
A pop culture phrase referring to unnecessary video calls.
What is "This could have been an email"?
This is how you give visibility to your planned time off to the entire company.
What is add it to the Google Vacations calendar?
Making an exception to NMM is ok for this reason.
What is for external calls?
Creating these types of times scheduled on your calendar shows when you are unavailable for calls.
What is "do not book/do not schedule"? (DNB/DNS)
What is to give flexibility and avoid meeting fatigue?
When planning time off, this is how you alert external individuals you'll be OOO.
What is an out of office response?
This is a better alternative to a meeting if I need to quickly get in touch with someone on NMM.
What is a Slack Huddle?
When you send a calendar invite to someone and see they have back-to-back calls with no breaks, you trigger this feeling, as sung by Merle Haggard.
What are the 'Workin' Man's Blues'?
An async option to "attending" a video call.
What is watching a recording?
Much like updating your relationship status on Facebook, this easily shows the team when you're unavailable 🌴.
What is set my Slack status?
The type of work culture NMM creates.
What is asynchronous communication?