Comment on Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff

mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  daily status of an hour is fucked

  we have a weekly for our ten person team, and that is long if it goes 15 minutes

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  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, what you described is how it should be.

    Each person:

    1. What I did yesterday.
    2. What I’m working on today.
    3. Briefly describe obstacles or assistance I need.

    That could be as little as 45 seconds per person if done properly.

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We stick to that format with minor variations:

      1. Update on everyone’s pets’ health
      2. Update on peoples’ kids’ behaviour
      3. Update on team members’ health and their families
      4. Miscellaneous gripes
      5. All the sports: what happened, what people think will happen, and details of particular players
      6. Mutual accusations of breaking things
      7. Defence against said accusations
      8. Gripes about boss’s emails
      9. Long, in-depth accounts from two team members of their last day’s work, minute by minute, with digressions into big-picture frustrations and grumbles about management, customers, etc.
      10. Recounting of the history of these issues over the last 15 years or so.
      11. Each person tells us that they’re working on the thing the kanban board says they’re working on, and that it will take them as long as it says on the board.
      12. Holiday plans or accounts of past holidays
      13. Goodbye
      14. One guy jumps in with a 15-minute anecdote about taking his dog to the vet
      15. Goodbye
      16. Any further anecdotes
      17. Goodbye.

      Its supposed to take 10-15 minutes but it takes up to an hour, sometimes more. I usually tune in late and sometimes pretend I lost my internet connection halfway through.

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      • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s crazy. I’d actually rather work. Or take a shit. Or do literally anything else.

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      • themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I used to get mad at these but it unironically sounds like a nice open culture

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    • jpeps@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Honestly even that is for beginner teams, frankly. If there’s good shared understanding, clear work, and good interaction regularly within the team (ie you’re actually working together towards a goal), just hurry up and tell everyone what you need, and get out. Fight the sludge.

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