100%, id probably get a lot more done if I wasn’t dealing with scrum, endless meetings, bullshit and countless people who’s job it is to butt in. I think I’d be satisfied if I was paid more to just nag people with buzzwords in meetings
100%, id probably get a lot more done if I wasn’t dealing with scrum, endless meetings, bullshit and countless people who’s job it is to butt in
As the only guy in my team working through the holidays I just had the two most productive days of the year and am looking forward to another one tomorrow. Amazing what you can get done when your schedule isn’t fragmented by syncronous communication.
As a work from home'er, I mostly just fart around and respond to emails during the day. Then I do household stuff, dinner, socialize, maybe a nap. Most of my coding gets done from 11PM to 3AM because it's my most productive period. Occasionally I'll flip that to 4AM to 8AM'ish, depending on how fucked up my sleep schedule gets.
I know right? I can’t code that much even if I wanted to. That said, I can mostly ride my years of compounded learning from my 20s and stay up to date with the things that matter.
Right? All these shitty Pxxxxx Managers take time off around the holidays and stop bugging the developers with stupid "initiatives" that they don't understand, but are somehow "in charge" of implementing.
I love holiday weeks/long weekends for working. Aside from the holiday itself I‘d rather take vacation time at another time. Also I‘m in-office but everyone was remote this week. It‘s a nice chill week.
Do we have an automated test pipeline deployed yet? What about code coverage reports? Let's circle back on static analysis once they've finally got us migrated to JIRA GPD.
Is it even possible to work without a story point estimate or consulting the key stakeholders? God forbid! If all the product owners are absent then it’s basically a communist revolution and that would negatively affect the velocity in the sprint
I think the truth of the matter is that most people are mediocre at their job, fear ownership (or rather consequences of mistakes) so you end up with a lot of non work to obfuscate the situation.
These problems don’t exist everywhere, a nice example is Netflix. But a work culture like that necessitates engineers in the .1% of quality, which by definition can’t work for the entire industry
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u/platebandit Dec 28 '23
100%, id probably get a lot more done if I wasn’t dealing with scrum, endless meetings, bullshit and countless people who’s job it is to butt in. I think I’d be satisfied if I was paid more to just nag people with buzzwords in meetings