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 3 months 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