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[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 187 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I was just informed you weren't on the morning stand up call this morning" implies that this person wasn't there either.

[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a middle manager whose presence isn't needed in daily stand-ups, as evidenced by the attempted micromanaging. We don't invite those fuckers to stand-ups because they just talk about useless metrics the whole time.

[–] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You could have just stopped at “who’s presence isn’t needed.”. If they’ve got time to worry about standup attendance, then it’s extremely likely that all the useful parts of their job will fit into a short python script, and the company can save some money.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You seem to be contradicting yourself here. Yes, in most variations golf Agile, middle management should -‘not be in standups. This is the opposite of micromanaging

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

being absent from the standup is not micromanagement. Getting annoyed while texting a single employee who didn't hit metrics for one day very much is.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also may have just not checked to see if everyone was on the call, especially if that meeting has a bunch of people on it.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then there is too many people on that meeting and its a waste of time.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah any stand-up call that has more than like 4 or 5 people on it is automatically gonna be unproductive.