We spend more time talking about work in pointless check-ins than actually doing it. How leadership expects anything to get done when we're constantly pulled into status updates is beyond me. Just let us work.
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Staff employees spend most of their time on actual work. Sr. leaders spend most of their time on meetings, which they call work. Without those meetings, Sr. leaders have nothing else to do and they cannot make money. Meetings are the major source of Sr. leaders' income. So meetings will not go away.
The problem here at Wells that I see is there are enough schlubs who take 30 minutes to say what should only take 30 seconds. And not enough people to call them out and shut it down.
People pontificate, wax whimsical about “before” and in general repeat stories from the beginning of time all in an effort to appear important when they are not.
I'm in a multi-team meeting right now with several people. One of them is an offshore gorgeous woman that I wish would sit on my face.
Have a great day, and God bless.
Meetings are the stage to practice politics
@c5+1jtkhkerq, those are not nonsense, those are basic ceremonies required for agile. Before you criticize others, you need to uderstand the agile fundamentals first. WF agile is failing partly because of people like you who do not understand agile.
stand-ups, replenishment, ceremony, sprint planning, review, retrospective ... what nonsense is this - my previous employer had 'real' agile but not like the madness here. i joined because i had to relocate with family...
I was in an rcsa meeting the other day, where I kid you not, we wordsmith-d for 30+ min, one word, in one sentence. Talk about a waste of time. Loved the collaboration though, glad I was in the office, while on the Teams call. Worth every min.
Obey your scrum master
Jira was meant for this. The only way C&C guys control you is via their status meetings. As @an+1jtkhkerq this act feeds into their "rank and yank" system.
If you are just a listener, dial in and turn off your headset. Works fine for me.
These meetings are required and used for the performance reporting purpose. If you keep skipping, it will be noted in your performance evlauation. If you reach certain number of absence, you will receive a warning and be placed in the performance improvement plan. It is similar to RTO, you have to be there.
Nope, don't be afraid to decline meetings.
Management exists to facilitate meetings, what would they do if they didn't lord over the workers all day long? You expect them to actually work rather than come up with additional ways to provide useless metrics to their bosses?
You must be in marketing. Land of endless, pointless, soul-su-king mandatory meetings the sole purpose of which is to provide a target for the ECD’s verbal diarrhea.
Which of course is why the work su-ks.
It has always been this way in my various roles and has nothing to do with layoffs. Senior leaders always want status for their own benefit, they don't care how much effort it takes or time it wasted so long as they are looking good on PowerPoint decks.