#KnowledgeTransfer #Vacation #ProfessionalDevelopment
Hey everyone! 👋 So, I had a bit of a situation at work and I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
Our tech lead wanted to do a knowledge transfer with me on a pretty complex topic right before I go on vacation. I thought it would be more productive to wait until I come back since I’ll most likely forget a lot of it over the course of my 3-week trip.
But when I mentioned this to him, he got super mad and just left the conversation without saying a word. 🤔
Do you think I was in the wrong here? Should I have just gone ahead with the knowledge transfer even though I knew it wouldn’t be as effective right before a long vacation?
One possible solution I was thinking of is maybe proposing to schedule the knowledge transfer for the week after I return from vacation. That way, I can still learn the information without it getting lost during my time off.
What do you guys think? Has anyone else been in a similar situation before? Let’s discuss! 😊💬
Did you refuse, or did you just point out that it was an inefficient strategy?
Your tech lead doesn’t seem to have proper control over his emotions to have a conversation about a very logical point
No, you’re not wrong. You did exactly the right thing by thinking ahead and realizing you won’t be able to retain the information in any meaningful way. If the tech lead actually was mad about that and just dropped from the call, it sounds like they’re pretty childish and need to learn to control their emotions.
Why not have it and record it, and watch it after returning?
Maybe your tech lead is about to put in notice and doesn’t know how to say that he won’t be here when you come back 😂
I would do it, say 2 hours probably isn’t enough, but do the best I can with a 2 hour window.
There’s nothing wrong with asking you to spend 2 hours on something, as long as there isn’t anything else they want finished before you leave.
Oh, he wanted to teach you something, rather than you teach something. That is odd to do it just before a vacation, but maybe that’s when he had time in his schedule.
Unless it was remote and you could have recorded it. Our office does that as well standard so it doesn’t hurt too bad when we leave for vacation.
lol fuck that guy
> and left the Zoom Call
I had a manager once who had self proclaimed anger management issues. He would do this. The way he grew over it was by saying *”I’m sorry, I’m getting a little heated. It’s better for everyone if I leave now. Let me call you back in a few. This is something I’m working on.”* -and then abruptly drop to go do whatever he did to cool off . This is what a manager with anger issues *needs* to be working on. Your manager does not seem to even recognize the problem, let alone be taking steps to fix it or work around them.
Tell your skip level what happened and enjoy your vacation.
He might have been mad at someone other than you. Perhaps his manager pressured him to do a KT but didn’t tell him you are going on vacation.
Alternative solution(if still relevant): Record the knowledge transfer meeting. Once you come back from your vacation refresh your memory with the recorded session.
Your TL needs a therapist
You get a three-week vacation?!?
The general sentiment is OK, the question is probably how you answered. For example if you had said something like “I want to ensure you don’t have to repeat yourself so it might be best to do this after I come back when I’m fresh and can immediately put this into practice; BUT understand if you want to do this now” versus “I’m half checked out already, can we do it in a month.”
You did the right thing, and he definitely acted immaturely and unprofessionally, but you mention you brought it up in the call. Was there an opportunity to give more advanced notice to him when he scheduled the meeting?