A common theme that I try to impress when working with BIM/CAD support folks is that it’s more than OK to take a step back and take a breath. What we do is critical to building efficiencies and, for now, providing a good set of documents.
But nobody is going to die.
That’s a bit hyperbolic, but it’s important to be honest with ourselves. If we wait a minute or two or five before speaking, before replying, before fixing a problem, nobody is going to die. In fact, nobody is even going to get hurt.
There are many tasks that we tackle that are very important to tackle right away. Some, in fact, are important enough to stop the other thing we are doing and tackle them.
Nothing that we do is critical enough to warrant us being rude, not thinking through the whole solution, or pausing to listen.