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Don't forget that it wastes team's energy before, during and after. We would have 3~4 hour estimations & planning and it would just completely wipe everybody ou
by yomkippur 4y ago
Don't forget that it wastes team's energy before, during and after. We would have 3~4 hour estimations & planning and it would just completely wipe everybody out. On top of that we had to track time to the minute and were thrown into debt because we owed "extra hours". On top of this our estimation would always be off due to people being burnt out and it would mean more hours were owed. This was a salaried position in Canada btw a long time ago and I don't know why there is so many of these small nanny startups that think they own people because they pay them a salary.
- watwut 4y agoThese used to wipe me out, but ever since I stopped paying attention to them this issue got solved. I use them for exercising, cooking, reading HN, etc while half listening to it like it would be radio. And literally nothing was lost in the process. I am as productive as before, know as little about product we are developing as before.
- yomkippur 4y agoreally? being on conference call for 3 hour straight, talking, thinking doesn't tire you out? the whole team takes breaks between and after too. even then I feel tired from such a lengthy session.
- watwut 4y ago> being on conference call for 3 hour straight, talking, thinking doesn't tire you out Being there straight, talking, thinking and listening would tire me out. But, I only half listen, dont focus on parts that dont seem relevant and get rest as I please. These meetings were super tiring for me when I was trying to learn requirements from them. But the result was that I did not learned much anyway and not paying attention made no change.
- rightbyte 4y agoYe crowded useless meetings you don't pull are a breeze if you are WFH.