Funny

I can.

I was stuck in a job I hated for over a decade, and not only that, I was the guy on the team doing the shit jobs no one else would do because many of the older, tenured people didn't want to work weekend hours ever.

I remember the slight panic in my boss's eyes when I put in my two weeks, but it wasn't half as sweet as my former coworker's panicking when they realized that they'd have to figure out how to do my job without my help. One even had the balls to say something to me about selfishness.

You see, they'd also declined my offer to train them on the functions I was involved in and the items I created.

Glorious.

"I was just informed you weren't on the morning stand up call this morning" implies that this person wasn't there either.

I don't know, call me skeptical or whatever, but this feels like one of those "and everyone clapped" kind of stories

There was a part 2 to this. They told him he wasn't actually fired and to finish the job. He obviously declined

https://twitter.com/BirdRespecter/status/1483897633210974208

"Please call me."

"No."

I worked with a woman when I worked for the federal government who was quite unpleasant. She left and went to work for a major contractor. I was on a call with her when several of her people didn't show up for the call. She was raging and asked me where they were. I told her that I had no idea where her people were. She finally had had enough and demanded that I go find them and get them on the call. I said, "I'm not going to find YOUR people on your call with me, THE CLIENT. I don't work for you anymore, Diane." and hung up on her

I really wish these were true.

I love this person so much. Good god I would pay hundreds of dollars for an intensely realistic VR game where I can just go absolutely apeshit on middle managers for hours every day.

We do what I call a shotgun standup twice a week. But it is done async 99% of the time.

Every Tuesday and Thursday we have 30 minutes that conveniently coincides with opening of the coffee shop in the office (two of us are onsite, six remote) prior to which the team is intended to write three bullets in the meeting chat:

• Prio one yesterday - and outcome
• Prio one today
• Any blockers discovered for either of those

If nobody posts a blocker, then we get 30 minutes on the calendar where nobody from outside our team can schedule anything. And the onsite folks get the freshest coffee before everyone else gets down there.

If there is a blocker; the person who called it out and the most experienced person in dealing with that type of blocker will join the call, as will anyone interested in the outcome. Once the blocker is resolved, the solution is put into the same meeting chat.

Where I am a contractor we have successfully petitioned to delay a "morning standups" until 1:30 p.m. - Which is a much better time to have it because it gives everyone time to A actually wake up, and be there, and B let's me actually read emails.

So many times things don't get covered in the morning stand up because no one's read their emails yet, and then you have to have another meeting at about 11:00 in order to discuss the contents of the email.

Ha ha ha ha.

However, I guess in that position I would still be more cautious with wording. No need to burn bridges to make a point.

"You really need an attitude adjustment"... 😂

Typical “manager”. Everyone show up to these useless meetings that don’t get work done or you can’t work here 🙃

I need my life to be like this.