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A few years ago, working on a comment team, I created a function to do an AB test using an AB test team system. Someone else does the implantation, not me. Some
by zac23or 3y ago
A few years ago, working on a comment team, I created a function to do an AB test using an AB test team system. Someone else does the implantation, not me. Someone didn't like the function, as they didn't use the company's cache system (the AB team previously explained all the reasons why the cache is not used, etc).
I started to participate in several meetings to explain that it does not use the cache system because bla bla bla.
A week or two after a few meetings (and a lot of money spent), I got it deployed.
It's the same company that created a new meeting to discuss wasted time in all the other meetings....
At the time I thought: This is abnormal, but it is actually an extremely common scenario in many companies.
- crop_rotation 3y agoYou might be surprised at how common this is.
- jawns 3y ago> It's the same company that created a new meeting to discuss wasted time in all the other meetings.... I've been in this kind of meeting. It was a 30-minute meeting instituting a rule that meetings should be 25 minutes by default.
- scruple 3y agoI sat through that one, too.
- duxup 3y agoI worked for a company with a few thousand employees. Everyone had to spend about 6 hours in meetings about how to have more effective meetings. VPs and managers droned on about how important it was. Rule 1 in the training was to have a detailed agenda. As far as I saw nobody ever followed rule 1 except myself and one other person. I’m glad I work at a small company now.