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Very unpopular opinion I think
(feddit.de)
Can you please activate your webcams?
Please choose a sticky note color to use for this meeting
Please take one of these smiley stickers and tell the others how you feel now
checking in from the 45 minute "stand up" in which 10 people have their cameras on but only 3 people speak. So we all know we're just working with the window as close to the camera as possible so it looks like we're listening
One of the teams in my pod are SO BUSY right now and I know they dont want to be in a meeting every day and no one talks and I have to roll through this daily script and I am met with deafening silence and its crushing. I want to tell my boss "dude this isnt benefitting anyone" but its what the company wants. And everyone suffers for it.
This reminds me of children who will get their toothbrush wet, put a little paste on their tongue so it smells like mint, run the water for 2 minutes, but not actually brush their teeth. You know, because they don't want to, and/or they don't understand the point.
They just know that the parents say they need to do this thing, and they'd rather be off playing. You're standing there for two minutes holding a wet toothbrush and staring at yourself in the mirror. Why not just brush your teeth?
I get it, they're very busy. They're already gonna be on the call for 15 minutes. Just participate ya know. Why choose to make that 15 minutes a complete waste? I expect the above from a child, not people with jobs in tech =/