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At one job, our management asked us to write a status email to be sent in every Friday afternoon by COB. After about six months, the management decided that it
by engi_nerd 10y ago
At one job, our management asked us to write a status email to be sent in every Friday afternoon by COB. After about six months, the management decided that it couldn't be bothered to sift through 30 emails from engineers each Friday afternoon. Therefore, they requested that we put our weekly status into a single Word document stored on a Sharepoint site.
You can guess what happened next -- someone would check the document out of Sharepoint, locking it for everyone else. Then that person would inevitably get interrupted and go handle the latest crisis. Meanwhile everyone else was unable to enter their status into the shared Word document.
Eventually management gave up and returned to having us send emails.
Fortunately I don't work there anymore.
- pavel_lishin 10y ago> After about six months, the management decided that it couldn't be bothered to sift through 30 emails from engineers each Friday afternoon. Therefore, they requested that we put our weekly status into a single Word document stored on a Sharepoint site. Would they have/did they bother to go through the Word document either? To me, it seems like a fun new way to test a Markov chain generator.
- engi_nerd 10y agoThey didn't have us update the Word document in place -- meaning each status didn't take the place of the previous week's status. So you can imagine that the document quickly grew quite long. Managers started complaining that they couldn't see what was happening quickly enough because they had to scroll too much.