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[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Bob is speaking the expected bullshit lingo, make sure he is only talking to clients and not bothering the dev team ever.

Five minutes later: Your calendar is bombard with recurring face-to-face project progress meetings

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

talking to clients

you want him to define features and deadlines?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ideally he and the client will tangle in endless discussions about features and deadlines, and the rest of the team could squeeze some real work instead of spending it on fruitless meetings.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago (4 children)

0900 till 0930 - 15 min standup meeting. 1000 till 1100 - Pre meeting for customer meeting at 1100.
1100 till 1200 - Customer meeting.
1230 till 1300 - Post Meeting catchup.
1300 till 1330 - focus time.
1330 till 1430 - JIRA board update meeting.
1430 till 1500 - priorities review meeting.
1500 till 1645 - focus time.
1645 till 1730 - EOD standup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

This nearly gave me an aneurysm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

See you’re open in the afternoon, so I scheduled a demo session there with the new VP, so he can get a better sense of the product. Let’s meet up 30 min before for a dry-run

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, there's my daily panic attack taken care of early

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Only one panic a day?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I dont even work in corporate and reading this makes me yearn for the sweet, merciful embrace of death

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It really is alarming how entire teams of smart folks can be sidelined by one self-important asshole.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Happens way too often. The worst part is, that middle management listens to said asshole, instead of the people on the team, because they hired them to relay shit through. So when someone on the team complains or outlies the useless meetings, they are forever branded "not a team player".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Kind reminder: you didn't fill the KPI matrix for the last 15 minutes. Please do it asap :)