Rev. Charles BrowningSep 2, 2025
My #Technology tinkering enters the sanctuary: our cleaning person accidentally broke a glass chimney for one of the altar candles; turns out it’s a size that’s not manufactured and would need to be custom. New candlesticks are prohibitively expensive. But thank the Lord for hardware standards because I figured out that I could cannibalize parts from unused processional torches (which have glass chimneys) to make renewed altar candles! Just need some polishing. #Church #OtherDutiesAsAssigned
Karen AlexanderApr 14, 2025
I didn’t realize part of my new job would be helping elderly aunts who live in AZ find a Lutheran church for their disabled nephew who lives in the Mpls suburbs to attend on Easter Sunday. #otherdutiesasassigned #lutherans #easter
Mark LepperJul 31, 2024
I'm just over here at work perfecting my flower arranging game. #BloomScrolling #OtherDutiesAsAssigned
Max Leibman has moved!Nov 16, 2023

We throw around terms like “team player” in the context of people doing more, being flexible, going beyond the bounds of their role.

But being part of an effective team means delegation and specialization, too. If I see a question pop up in email that I CAN answer, immediately jumping on it isn’t helping the team work at its best if there is someone else whose job is to answer that question (even moreso if there’s something else I should be doing right now).

#teamwork #OtherDutiesAsAssigned

Max Leibman has moved!Aug 18, 2023
Nobody likes the colleague who reflexively says, "That's not my job!" but nobody promotes the person who never says, "That's not my job!"



#focus #boundaries #OtherDutiesAsAssigned
Max Leibman has moved!Aug 8, 2023
It's weird how often the person who says “XYZ is everyone’s job!” is a person whose job title includes XYZ.


#OtherDutiesAsAssigned #CorporateCulture #accountability
Max Leibman has moved!Jan 18, 2023
Signed my annual performance evaluation this morning. The only weakness noted by my manager was "tends to spread himself too thin," which I took as a very charitable way to describe my working style of "Ignores duties he doesn't enjoy until they are literally on fire while wandering around finding more interesting work that is not his actual job."

#PerformanceEvaluations #AnnualReviews #procrastination #OtherDutiesAsAssigned
Rev. Charles BrowningDec 29, 2022
Today’s #spiritual adventure: coaxing a wayward pigeon out of the sanctuary. #otherdutiesasassigned
Cyberpunk LibrarianAug 14, 2018

So today: one of the library's accountants and I totally disassembled a large shredder, extracted the quarter that someone accidentally dropped in there, and then put the thing back together.

It still works. No need to buy a new shredder.

#OtherDutiesAsAssigned #librarylife