Having a team touch base, followed by a daily standup, followed by a quality initiative meeting, followed by a biweekly support touch base, followed by a demo for a tool your team will never use, followed by lunch and learn session over some AI tool you'll be forced to use, followed by your biweekly 1:1 with the manager, followed by the department touch base, followed by the company all hands.... Aaaaand done with meetings. Finally, some time to get some work done... then your downstream customer wants you to investigate why their counts don't match yours.... "could you run the totals again? Could you run them broken down by hour? By minute? By second? Can you get me a list of each record at these 6 timestamps? Can I get them in a different format? Oops, the problem was on our end." Great. And it's 5 o'clock. Scrum master gonna be up my ass about story points tomorrow.

[–] veetro@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

oh no my PTSD is coming back.

[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You must be a fellow data engineer

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Eh, more software now. But I work on a streaming platform so or downstream customers are data engineers.

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

As a project/portfolio manager, the first thing I try to do is eliminate everything except the customer part. That is really hard to fix, but at least there is more time?