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workaday Wednesday
Aug. 27th, 2025 08:09 amClassic Workplace Situation:
There's a process I'm partially responsible for, in the sense that I receive files and then send those files to another employee, who submits them to an outside organization for review. (I would say this is an overly complicated system, but relatively speaking, it's one of the more logical ones. 'Relatively speaking' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, I know.)
Sometimes the files are too big, and get rejected. No one has told me what the limit is, but 7MB is too big. I have hinted at asking the limit, but I'm hesitant to come right out and say 'hey what's the file size limit?'
Because 1) if the other employee doesn't know, that may make them feel defensive, and they're currently one of only two people on their team I can point my boss at to say 'see I really DO get along well with others, look!' and I don't want to jinx it. And 2) now it's an interesting puzzle for me to solve. 7MB is too big. 256KB is acceptable. Somewhere in between those is the limit. I'M GOING TO MAKE A CHART.
There's a process I'm partially responsible for, in the sense that I receive files and then send those files to another employee, who submits them to an outside organization for review. (I would say this is an overly complicated system, but relatively speaking, it's one of the more logical ones. 'Relatively speaking' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, I know.)
Sometimes the files are too big, and get rejected. No one has told me what the limit is, but 7MB is too big. I have hinted at asking the limit, but I'm hesitant to come right out and say 'hey what's the file size limit?'
Because 1) if the other employee doesn't know, that may make them feel defensive, and they're currently one of only two people on their team I can point my boss at to say 'see I really DO get along well with others, look!' and I don't want to jinx it. And 2) now it's an interesting puzzle for me to solve. 7MB is too big. 256KB is acceptable. Somewhere in between those is the limit. I'M GOING TO MAKE A CHART.
