• chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    14 days ago

    I’m sure I spend a good 2 hours per week checking slack messages that don’t matter to me.

    I think I usually know when I do fake work, but you don’t get into trouble for doing your fake work, you get into trouble for being argumentative and calling out bullshit.

    He seems to confuse survival strategies with ignorance.

    People are calling meetings with their colleagues to preview the deck that they’re going to show in the big meeting, to get feedback on whether they should improve some of the slides,

    You might get just one shot to convince people at the actual presentation. If the outcome is at all important, doing rehearsals seems quite reasonable. And the idea might impact your coworkers as well, so I think it’s good to clue them in.

    edit: wait this is in news, not in slop

    I’m responsible for a good amount of fake work/processes myself, which I originally suggested to defend the team from constant micro management, and it worked. But it’s impossible to convince my higher ups to give up or reduce on any of the processes I’ve introduced years ago.