Fucking kill me. Is this really all we do with our lives?

1,715 JIRA-related emails. ALMOST TWO THOUSAND EMAILS. I mean seriously, that's BY FAR the largest email filter I've got. I mean I had them muted of course, but when you really think about the whole thing... are we just wasting our lives chasing some garbage that doesn't really matter? ugh.

Death approaches...

Between Jira, GitHub and the endless supply of alert emails for other team projects, my inbox on a Monday morning is usually around 1200 emails.

Filters and outlook rules save lives, not necessarily mine, but someone's not dying today.

I thought one of the values of Agile was ”individuals and interactions over tools and processes”. But by the rants I see here, it seems everything orbits around a tool called Jira.

@cafecortado 👀 agile has values?

It's literally just a hogwash of tickets that are supposed to be released in a systematic process that ends up in a 6 to 12 month waterfall 😂

@cafecortado the company I work for is expanding from a small startup to a big corp and they have been slowly ditching out the agile aspects of “agile methodologies” as management gets bigger.

2k Jira tickets?
bah. The main project for my company is 7k and counting. Also Jira onprem server has passed the EOL date.
So, any one can get me some accelarent, and a long neck lighter? or a granade? some rm -rf /?

I would advise you not to read them. Not a single one.

Unsubscribing from watching the unnecessary issues helped me with reducing spam emails greatly

Now think about the energy it took to process the requests sending these emails.

Yes we're that stupid.

I feel this rant in my bones. All we are is dust at the end of our 70-80 years. Nobody says “I wish I’d spent more time doing bug fixes” when they’re on their death beds. Clock in not one minute earlier than your start time and clock out exactly at your end time. That means clock out mentally as well. Focus on you, your spouse, your kids, and your friends. In the end, that’s all that really matters.