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I work at a big company where my manager is always 100% booked in meetings all day, and so are all the people he has to interact with. I never talk with him exc
by coldcode 9y ago
I work at a big company where my manager is always 100% booked in meetings all day, and so are all the people he has to interact with. I never talk with him except for quick slack questions. Meanwhile we are finally pushing the biggest release ever of one of our apps to the app store this week after working for more than a year on our part, yet the next big release is supposed to be code complete next week already. I took one day off Friday and paid for it by having work on my day off today due to yet another problem at the last minute. Yet executives expect arbitrary dates for things without regard for how much pain it costs. Every release is filled with last minute problems fixed in a hurry to meet iron clad schedules. This isn't sustainable.
- diogenescynic 9y agoI relate to your comment a lot. My boss is completely unavailable except for a brief 1:1 meeting every other week. We are constantly given arbitrary, yet impossible deadlines to meet. Then the objectives change mid-stream and have to start over... It seems totally toxic and I'm already looking for another job. I'm totally burnt out of working like this.
- ryandrake 9y agoGood luck. I don't think I have ever in my life worked for a single company where management was not fully booked in back-to-back meetings for 10 hours each day. What you've described is standard and normal, and something you will find in most companies. The grass is not greener...
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- danek 9y agoSome would say "perpetually busy management is bad management", and I'd agree.