My first helpdesk job had daily “standup” that often went for over an hour. We’d be sitting there getting chewed out by the owner about how we’re not getting enough done, while we can hear the phones ringing and angry voicemails from clients stacking up in the background. One of the worst jobs I ever had.
some people really seem to think that shitting on the ones who actually do the job solves anything
That guy was an egomaniac with a pathological need to be the smartest person in the room. Which was unfortunate for him, because although a competent technician, he was awful at running a business. Also he decided at some point that he knew enough about his craft in a field where everything is constantly changing.
if i fill every space, what do i win?
Another row and column to make an actual bingo card
Return to office mandate and a slice of cold pizza.
If this were a 5x5, I’d have the free square in the middle be “aI-pOwErEd”
Weirdly, after a certain percentage of useless meetings (that should have been an email) it does become more productive to make the AI “do the job”: not because it’s actually efficient, but an AI is never interrupted for a pointless meeting for hours.
It’s good when you are involved on a single team, so you only have 1 ~1 hour standup to participate…
Making a copy of a folder on the same drive is a “backup” 😝
This is less awful IT practice and basically just bad development practice.
Working in IT support, you developers are a different breed of users.
Any extra points for hitting the “Finished the feature?” square three times for the same feature?
My project is doing 12 of those. Guess who has another job interview round next Friday?
You’re getting job interviews?
Rarely, but it happens.
But I can’t shake off the feeling that in most cases recruiters completely misunderstood or misrepresented requirements for the position to get me to the technical interview stage. Like scheduling me for an interview with a team heavy with functional, big data processing while I barely have any purely functional experience.
Non-technical people doing recruitment work is a scam.
More like Bing of Awful IT Practices!
I’ve added this comment effort to my time tracker in story points.
Ingo
No requirements = nothing done, all requirements met
Worse than 1 hour standup and 4 hour planning:
1 hour daily standups and 30 minute planning meetings.
I’ve been on a team that consistently congratulated themselves on how fast and smooth planning is, when none of the stories would have acceptance criteria or real descriptions at the end of the meeting, and then we’d have to spend tons of extra time during daily standup actually figuring out wtf the work was
After a point in your career you either learn the skills and get the experience to understand how to plan projects and end up on those groups writing the definitions, or you remain an IC and just code what was given to you.
I dont work in IT but minor, minor, minor tweaks in the wording describes basically every job ive ever had.
I’m guilty of 1 hour standup.
Damn, I’ve encountered all of these, and my current job features most of them.
Oh c’mon guy, just work your magic
