Welcome to Random Tools.

Our guidance on feedback on status reporting.

Nothing is fine.

Here we go.

Folks, this guidance answers the question.

Is fine an appropriate status when you ask your direct for status?

What should we do when direct say things are fine?

And is it okay to want to know more?

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Okay, so as a manager, we always want to know how things are going, right?

We always want to feel like things are going okay.

We don't do the work ourselves.

So other people know more about the work than we do.

And we're gonna have to ask them them and this is all in spite of project

tracking reports weekly meetings gant charts resource tabs you know you're

still going to have to ask, hey, how are things going on Project X, and the most

common answer in the world is fine, which is not really an answer, right?

Yeah, everybody's definition of fine is a little bit different.

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