My daily meetings could be reduced to our boss pinging a group chat and saying "Let me know what you're working on and if you need 15 minutes with me or the senior dev to work on a blocker."

So many times its 15 minutes of nothing. Then suddenly, lets let X person debug their issue for 30 and by that time I've zoned out and forgot what I was going to say.

Even cooler when a middle manager joins and goes down the list of stories one by one for updates and acts concerned when we're all working on 1 each. Like brother, I have to refresh what I was doing after a long weekend, no way I'm tackling 3 tasks at once. And we're good about closing stories (and removing them from his list) so it isn't even a "is this done?" check.

International company with big name customers anyone would recognize btw. Its wild how inefficient actual business is. Anyone saying otherwise is outright lying or hasn't done real work in 20 years. I could write a full essay on shit I've seen/done/not done that would be a good argument for firing me. And not even misconduct or anything, just like, why the fuck are you paying me to do what I'm doing.

[–] lib1@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

pinging a group chat and saying "Let me know what you're working on and if you need 15 minutes with me or the senior dev to work on a blocker."

This is exactly what we’ve done in place of a morning standup meeting for years. Works great

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I know its a meme but in 9 out of 10 cases a meeting could have been an email.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

I'm glad I'm a cook so I don't have to deal with that shit but they keep trying to call me to morning meetings and it's like, ALWAYS on a day where I've solidly planned on doing all of my actual cooking, panning out, etc, in a very narrow window from 10:30am-10:50am, right before we open at 11, to maximize the freshness and quality of my food by minimizing how long it's sitting in the vapor cabinet keeping warm

and it's like, they could mention it earlier so I can plan, or they could DO THE MEETING earlier, like, 10? so I'm not imminently and urgently busy

but I keep having to just be like "i do not have time for this, sorry" to my boss's boss, because i do not have time for it, I have pans of shit in the oven, plus other shit I'm actively doing, and it needs to be done

I guess it doesn't matter because he gets it but like come on, learn from this and like try to work it out with me

anyway it's always for some stupid shit like "here's a company motto we need to remember this week "be nice to people," wow. Also did you guys know it's important to wash your hands?" that i honestly find insulting to be asked to attend a meeting for

i think the last one I came to the end of it and they were saying something about like, working hard on making quality food and stuff? and it's like, again, insulting, I am already doing that for my pure love of the game, I don't need the company to tell me to make stuff better when I'm already making stuff the best