There was a time i disliked middle managers (because i thought they were useless and just making bank for sending emails and doing meetings) but then a couple of them took sick leave for a few days and then i realized how important they were. When they came back, i was almost crying with joy 🤣

there was a time i disliked middle managers, but then a couple of them took sick leave for a few days and then i realized: how fucking quickly a project can progress if those worthless space-wasting lifetime-leeching excuses for human beings are out of the pictures, and instead of "dislike" i should say "loathe, hate and despise".

Middle manager spotted 😄

@tosensei haha but seriously bro, i hated doing meetings when they were away. The senior manager always asked me to be with her during client meetings and also directly spoke to me and stuff. I hated that, hence i was happy when the middle managers returned haha, but yeah some managers can be aholes :p

@Lensflare no bro i am a react dev :)

@svartblod you know, a meeting with just two technical people is over, successfully, in 10 minutes. while a meeting with two tech people and the usually around 5 middle managers takes 2 hours and has no result except boosting sales for antidepressants.

@tosensei yeah you are right abt that haha

@svartblod i know i am. but first, let's call a meeting with 5 people to schedule a series of jourfixes with 20 people to evaluate the acceptance criteria of me being right, how to integrate it with $CustomersCustomProjectManagementSystem and how to ensure a continuous me-being-right-ness. and then let's congratulate ourselves for all being right alltogether about a month after facts have changed and i'm not right anymore.

@tosensei haha

@tosensei and also have a so called 'quick' meeting on why you are not right anymore which would be overseen by the HR haha

@svartblod you laugh... i shudder because it's my daily reality.

@tosensei haha aaaargh i hate meetingsss, i get panic attacks man whenever there are review meetings, requirement meetings are ok but review meetings man...aaaargghh

@svartblod i do, however, like the handovers.

customer: "how long will that take?"

me: "xyz days"

me, inside: "it's already done for a week..."

A small, funny quote for the thread:

"I'm a social vegan. I don't like meet."

@tosensei haha i have to try that

@ptothew lol 😆