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BigTony
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I work on many projects at work. There's divisions of teams and each team typically has one project. Each one of those projects have weekly Sprint meetings.

That's great! For the team. That means each team has one meeting a week so it's not too disruptive for those individuals.

Me on the other hand? I've got my hand in all the buckets. I'm on every team. I'm the only person on every team. This means I get to go to every meeting.

Let me rephrase that:
This means I -have- to go to every. Single. Meeting.

Which means I have a meeting every. Single. Day. Even if I didn't touch that project that week.

It is literally THE biggest waste of time. I sit there in a 1-2 hour long meeting saying absolutely nothing, not even being spoken to. I could be working on other projects.

And these meetings normally interrupt something I'm working on. Conveniently in the middle of me being in my zone. It makes me completely un-motivated to work for the hour before the meeting because why bother if I'm just going to get interrupted? And then it takes an hour to get back into everything after the meeting because everyone is fooling around or complaining about the meeting.

So that's three hours of my 8 hour work day completely wasted.

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  • 0
    @BigTony can be frustrating indeed. Make the best out of it. It is your chance to see the bigger picture of all projects combined. Maybe your management want you to synergies all projects. 🤔
  • 2
    Gather everyone in a meeting to express how you feel frustrated about having to attend to meetings that disrupt your routine , just like you will be doing with this meeting.
  • 1
    @azous "I need a 3 hour slot where we can talk about our feelings please." lol
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