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At my work they are necessary. I'm... I guess middle management, you'd say (supervisor in a shop). Our work changes from day to day, nobody doing the same thing from one day to the next, so there's an upper and middle management brief where they outline all the work for the day, assign tasks to specific shops, give general information to be passed along (upcoming events and reminders), then I take that to my shop to assign individual tasks from our shop's workload.
So I attend two of those daily meetings a day (about 5-10 min each) but they are definitely necessary for us.
Theoretically a group phone call would work, but that would be even more challenging than the meeting. In my shop, I need to know what the other shops are doing to provide personnel if needed, a lot of work is shared between shops, and often plans for the day are not developed until that brief. It's not just my shop directly being assigned work, it's a collaborative meeting.
And the meeting that I lead can't be emails, because we have 2 shared computers for anywhere from 2 to 8 people who will be in the shop any given day (and it takes 5-10 minutes to log onto one of our computers. At least.). And in general we don't want them hanging out on computers, we want them tasked and heading out to work as soon as possible.
All in all, it's 15-20 minutes and gives everyone direction for the day. I haven't come across anyone that has found them to not be worthwhile in my workplace.
I'm not the person you were replying too but I believe that I work in a similar industry to them. Can I just say that you sound like an asshole with this response?
I work in manufacturing and automation does not yet exist for every job on our floor. Every day is different and people actually need to work as a team in our industry. You may be incapable of team work but some industries/jobs still require it. You may not work in a fast paced environment were requirements (sometimes even regarding people's safety) can change in minutes but some people still do. You may be able to work remotely in your bubble using hands off email leadership that ignores the human element behind the screen but some people are still required to go to work in person and work with other humans face to face.
Telling someone they should layoff everyone by just adding automation is insulting. Telling someone they should be delivering instructions for complex systems, in an industry you clearly know nothing about, over text is asinine. The guy you were talking too is trying to do the best he can to make the people who work for him successful in a low tech enviornment with massive coordination requirements and you think he can be replaced with an automated text message? Fuck you.
Manager: "Torrential rain at our customers location means we're going to have to move priorities, I just got the email 5 minutes ago."
Sup 1: Our new pioritizes mean we're running the lathe. We cant pivot to project Y because the metal for that was cut incorrectly and the new order is on backorder. We can use that metal to make order K but well have to manually cut it down."
Sup 2: "Tim called out this morning, I can rearrange my department to cover most positions but not that one, can I get John from you to run the lathe? Gary is the most qualified but his sister filed for divorce from Doug on saturday. Doug has to interact with the lathe position all day and itll cause issues."
Sup 1: "I can give you John if I can get Frank from department X to help cover down."
Sup 3: " I can give Frank up but were having a baby shower for Rachel at 1400 and Ill need him back for that."
Sup 1: "Thats fine we have maint scheduled for today well just do that then."
Manager: "Now that we've had our 5 -10 minute start up meeting no one do anything. Lets call the IT guy on the other side of the country who hates meetings and get him to program the details of todays resource allocation into joemos skynet. He says its way more efficient than us talking for 5 fucking minutes at the start of the day. It definitely has a section for you're most experience lathe operators sister is divorcing the forklift driver in another department. Joemo skynet can then text its plan into the ether cause 10% of the floor doesnt even have a working phone number and 99% dont have computer access. Joemo definitely understands the manufacturing industry."
If you know of a good way to automate leading humans out of manufacturing then youll make millions and CEOs will love you. Because if theres one thing computer systems are definitely great at its dealing with completely unique and non black and white information especially without a human having to manually input it.
If you worked in manufacturing then I'm sorry for everyone who had to work with you. I've also used MRP systems and they don't negate the need for stand up meetings. But you clearly don't actually want to understand my point so it seems were at an impasse. Please continue working in IT for all our sakes.