#busywork

I just want to do my actual job and go home. Instead, I spend hours in meetings where nothing gets accomplished, where we generate more questions than answers, and where people just complain about things that no one is going to fix. It is exhausting and completely pointless.

so sick of every tom, di-k and harry reminding us to complete it, been here 20 plus years and never had anything good happen from that stupid survey
another waste of time

I can't remember the last time I was able to just sit down and do my job without thinking about performance rankings or future opportunities or whatever new process they've invented this month. Leadership seems obsessed with things that don't matter, and the constant distraction means nothing important ever gets done. It's counterproductive and it's ki-ling the little morale we've got left.

Only a genius could come up with the perfect business model. Create fake jobs to review fake work, challenge fake wording, produce fake governance, and then report fake progress on risks everyone already understood. Then call it “enhanced oversight”.

But the good news is: several fake issues are being actively monitored and reported in several fake risk committees.

So that’s nice.

SMs, Now that you are exiting, can you tell us what exactly you were doing beside scheduling and hosting agile ceremonies. You were getting free money folks

Why are there MDs arm-twisting their staffs to complete the code of conduct that we have a month to complete? Same with the feedback theater. Is this what scores points now - harassing staff to get meaningless things done ahead of the deadline?

Been at DXC UK a couple of years and just started on my second account. Thought the first one was bad enough but this one I started on recently is unbelievable. I started off with 2 managers. We then raised the issue of not enough technical staff to then receive 2 more managers. So instead of addressing our concerns, we are now being micro-managed by utter incompetent non-producers who fill our day with continuous ‘stand ups’, ‘wash ups’ and data requests for their pointless spreadsheets. How these buffoons feel they are ‘adding value’ is beyond me. Anyone else in this boat?

I am asked to post "team-journal" every day bullsh-t confluence posts on what i do.

Apparently this is the "future" way, not real work, not real tasks.

I got a massive AI slop task which look like epic, then i read it and half is hallucination.... most of all now they asked me to pull some strange repo and talk with devin to post my "diary" to confluence.

When will this medical experiment end?

Why do managers feel the need to drone endlessly about the obvious? Best I can tell, maybe 10% is actually instructive, the other 90% is just a ritual to make them feel important. People have stopped asking genuine questions, it’s too risky. It'll just extend the agony, and the answers won't come anyway.

I spend all day in pointless meetings that add zero value. Then I have to work late to actually get my work done because there's no time during the day. It's a constant cycle of falling behind.

My team is tired of writing quarterly check- ins and monthly practice reviews. They work hard and spending all this time is getting to them. I had a few just not submit one this quarter despite my weekly reminders. Can’t say I really blame them.

What is with the quarterly review process? Can anyone think of a d-mber waste of everyone’s time doing mindless busywork 4 times a year?
Everyone seems paranoid and mid-manager and up is obsessed with money and go to market -how much does that keystroke contribute to revenue? Ansys projects starved-no new hires, no computers, quotas on toilet paper for RTOs.
Insanity. Seen it before-this company is in a death spiral.

Can anybody inform as to the content and context? Can't some of this just be informed via cc learning?

Alright let’s get that network in tip top shape union men. Clean those fibers, wait for those trouble tickets and scan those 5 dollar jumper cables. Those managers need billable work we can do it. Lets create those tickets to make us look busy we can do it!

So far, I've spent 2 hours going through my inbox. I've only gotten 1/3 of the non-filtered emails I received in the past three days cleared.

Now I've got a teams call that will eat up 30–60 minutes, then I can get back to reading and deleting emails.

This is what it takes to avoid the downtime I, as a technology worker, regularly have due to the nature of my work being reactive. I'm not getting anything of value done, but at least I'm not gonna show up on a non-activity report, since I've been working non-stop for over 2 hours. Just think of how good my metrics will look.

It's amazing how productive I feel!

Why? Why is that needed? Most of those meetings are nothing but people repeating things that were said many, many times before just packaged another way. It's not like something positive or new comes of it. So what's the point, other than to keep useless people busy?

I could probably create a kafkaesque youtube-channel about this, but interested in other people's experiences.

What did you accomplish today at work? Keep it general so you don't get identified by some schmuck.

I got mostly spam emails. Most calls were cancelled. I contemplated investing in a mouse jiggler.

Everyone is just obsessed with opening JIRA stories and tracking useless metrics all the time; there is no real work being done and just paper being pushed to show that something is being done

Business and stakeholders treat PMs like their servants ("you work for us, stop thinking and follow what we tell you to do"). Work on meaningless projects that leads to absolutely zero outcomes.

No wonder there are no good products or things coming out of here and the stock will trend to zero over time

Be honest, how many of the corporate initiatives you’ve been asked to work on are pointless? Reflecting back on the last few years, I’m embarrassed at the amount of work I’ve put into corporate initiatives that are either completely pointless, or totally ineffective. Most of these have either been quietly abandoned or performatively kept alive. For me, it’s nearly all of them. And frankly, it’s affects how I approach current initiatives. I do as I’m told, but don’t really care about the actual quality, since I know it’ll be dead in 12-18 months any way.