Do you really have 5 in-progress tasks a day... that are all blocked due to other people? I've never experienced that in software engineering/dev. I've experienced 5+ tasks per day as a code monkey; but never have I been completely and utterly blocked from doing any work at all -- because there's always something else I could be doing (see: backlog). And if I were still in the 5+ task per day camp, I would take my sweet time answering Slacks/etc.; because I'm already inundated with work, and breaking out of my flow to spend 15 minutes on a text chat that could have been 2 minutes through voice, is not something I'm going to do.

I do not understand it at all. Are you a junior/working on simple one-off tasks with inane deadlines everyday/not in engineering?

n.b. throwaway because I never post.