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"Face-to-face meetings are a justification for middle management to exist; " Communicating is 1/2 of business; it's really odd that so many people have difficu
by jariel 7y ago
"Face-to-face meetings are a justification for middle management to exist; "
Communicating is 1/2 of business; it's really odd that so many people have difficulty with this.
I think because as Engineers, we measure value in 'code' then we tend to diminish all the other aspects of the business or process.
Meetings can obviously be a waste but they are also critically important.
- jeffbee 7y agoMeaningful communication happens between your ICs. The weekly hour-long team meeting where the manager polls the room and nobody has anything to say is just a waste of everyone's time. Reducing what you have to say to an email has the effect of distilling and refining it, and in many cases leads to the realization that it was wrong to begin with, or doesn't warrant saying.
- icebraining 7y agoICs?
- TuringNYC 7y agoIC = Individual Contributor (worker who does not have a team under them)
- guynamedloren 7y agoIndividual Contributors. In this case, the engineers.
- ryanwaggoner 7y agoSounds like you need a new manager.
- cmdshiftf4 7y agoJudging by the sheer level of resentment the poster holds for management, as a whole, it sounds more like it could easily be a case of their manager needing to replace a report.