So in other words managers are big toddlers that have to be talked into making good decisions using cheap emotional manipulation tactics.
Honestly that kind of checks out
Honestly that kind of checks out
You don’t need to dumb it down and manipulate anything—just be brief. Brevity and sticking to facts are key.
- One of the two servers has disk space issues
- Using the low space server for these jobs is costing us a productivity time loss for our engineers who have to manage the low disk space issues
- we would like to move some jobs to the other server to eliminate the cost of managing the disk space.
- there are no hard costs associated with making this change, only savings.
Thanks for the comment. I realized I didn't mention when this kind of tactics might be useful. Added the following paragraph to the end of my post:
> At this point, you might start to wonder: What kind of incompetent managers deserve this degree of babysitting? They probably don’t in the tech industry, but not every engineer work at a tech company. They might be in retail, fashion, film production, etc., where there just happened to have a need for software development. Even those who do work in tech might wish to move to an industry that is less tech-centric, at which point these communication skills will prove handy.