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I'm curious as to how this happens. I'm sure everyone's been in the situation where there's a blocker that goes on for a while or they've been assigned to a tea

I'm curious as to how this happens. I'm sure everyone's been in the situation where there's a blocker that goes on for a while or they've been assigned to a team/department but not told what to do. But this sounds different. How are dev tickets tracked if at all? Are there daily stand ups where you and your team just bullshit for 15 seconds each? Do your superiors not expect deliverables?

uselessemployee 6y ago
There is Jira of course, and somehow tickets do get resolved eventually, perhaps my 3-4 hours per week is enough for that. Daily stand ups are the funniest. I get to work on my bullshiting and improvisation skills. Sometimes I say stuff that I could have done but just could not be bothered enough. Interestingly, I found out that nobody really cares or follows up on that. Occasionally other people reach out to me for help. Sometimes I do help them, sometimes I pretend to be too busy for that. I think this happens because higher management are so full of themselves and genuinely believe in what they are supposedly doing that they cannot comprehend a simple idea of being useless and just not having much for others to do. There is a quote about exactly this situation, has been quite popular recently.