Lower/middle Management refusing to look at boards and wanting daily résumé of activity in an email they will never read nor comprehend.

GPT that shit straight from the board.
Automate it with Google script to send the email out daily 😂

@iSwimInTheC make sure to get it to use domain specific language as much as possible.

Why daily, if it can be sent hourly, to get it throught into their faces, with multiple copies sent to them.

@max19931 oh that's the hearty malicious compliance I enjoy.

Email them a link to the board every morning.

Create password protected pdf full of garbage like 10gb or something and send to them daily, without the password obviously.

After 3 mails their mailbox is gonna fill up and they wont be able to recieve any mail from anyone 😇

@iSwimInTheC they wanted copies of it, so they get them. Hourly updates, they asked for them, so i deliver, they want to be part of the workflow, so they shall be spammed with messages.

Why not a dashboard to Show progress, but they want Emails.

@lungdart more like every hour, so they are reminded of where to get the data from.

@coldfire email can only hold like 1GB of storage in most corp email systems, especially of run for longtimes(win2003). Fuck exchange and their storage limits.

Email is also not a good messaging system, setup slack or IRC. And yes, they are simply to setup and work across even a globally distributed workforce.

@max19931 That just increases the number of mails by 10, i would still do it 🤠

Just curious: Are you am employee,a consultant, or like a part of a remote or offshoring team?

One thing I heard managers say is that boards are lacking when one ticket hasn't moved in two days you can't tell if devs have been actively struggling with it for two full days or if it's paused in favor of helping others. (unless you actually out down hours spent per ticket on a daily basis)

And with in house teams they might have a grasp of what's going on, but with remote teams they feel clueless.

@jiraTicket consultant for government agencies. Usually the job is fine but it's a constant battle with direct and Middle management to do things right. They always want us to cut corners and expect us to be telepaths to discern what they really want. Also for a government agency the lack of governance is disturbing...

Other than that the people that get shit done are awesome, with a few holier-then-thou exceptions.

@jiraTicket true about the tickets to some degree, that is, if the ticket does not receive comments where progress is recorded and this causing empty tickets without any meaning.

But when adding comments and got references, ITIL ticket referencing for following up on issues outside your control.. you fill that all in and then the TL simply refuses to look at it .. that sucks.

My beef is simply the attitude of 'management' people's reasoning that since they are management they are not supposed to do all that and just have emails with the exact same content instead...

Meanwhile I am wearing like 15 types of caps at the same time, cause otherwise all our projects would go down like a bad soufflé.

@NeatNerdPrime I see, sounds infuriating when it's managers just being lazy and unwilling to adapt to using the same tools as everyone else and just demanding to get the same info in another format. Especially when you're already super busy.

(would be easier to accept their wishes if they claimed that comments written in tickets are too wordy and they want a shortened summary - but if it's the same text just sent over email, that's just them being spoiled)