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I'm a Staff SRE. I literally mentor an entire SRE team every single day. I didn't say a single thing about paired programming. Christ. Did I say that the dev w
by swozey 3y ago
I'm a Staff SRE. I literally mentor an entire SRE team every single day.
I didn't say a single thing about paired programming. Christ. Did I say that the dev wanted to pair program? No, I didn't. I would have happily hopped in a huddle with him as OPPOSED to scheduling a meeting 3 days later.
I am sick of meetings and people who are incapable of working async, especially when we're in different timezones, which is exactly what this thread I'm responding to is about.
- greenie_beans 3y ago> I was trying to walk someone through adding a docker build process to their CI and.... he just couldn't communicate/understand it through slack and he wanted to schedule a meeting. this sounds like pair programming imo. > Great, now instead of being able to respond while working on other things I have to cut out an entire hour of my day just for you. this reads as a bad attitude towards mentorship. sorry for that assumption.
- swozey 3y agoNope, I love mentoring. My frustration is not knocking this out over 10 slack messages right now and having to round back to it days later. I want it done and off my plate. I'm ADHD. I don't want lingering tasks floating around giving me anxiety when they can be done quickly. I'm going to forget it exists until 10 minutes before when it pops up on my notifications, then I'll have to context switch over to that situation. One of my biggest coping mechanisms is as soon as something pops into my mind I do it RIGHT NOW. If I walk by the laundry basket and think of doing laundry I grab it and do it RIGHT now. Or I'll just walk by it for a week completely oblivious to it.
- greenie_beans 3y agoi feel you. thanks for sharing your working style. i'm sorry i misread your comment.