It never fails that if there is a high priority critical thing that I absolutely must get done that business folks will immediately book half of every day with status meetings.

Each meeting is the same. Some group of people asking me the same thing I already said 5 times that day, then them discussing for an hour while I tune out and actually do the work

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just note that if you somehow get out of those meetings, incorrect information will be propagated somehow. Even if you put the correct answers in an email and send it to everyone involved. If someone has a way to prevent that from happening please let me know. It's killing me slowly.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Step 1. Ignore everyone and do the thing you're going to eventually do anyway.

Fin

[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Get passed over for promotions/laid off for "not being a team player" or some BS like that because idiots can't tell you're doing your job unless you waste time bragging about it.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Strongly depends on the company. I have done this exact thing several times when something was critical and it was actually noted as one of the reasons they told me as to why I got my last promotion. Something like "staying focused on the issue at hand while respectfully managing the pushback from the business while still moving ahead with the urgent fix."

Basically I told the business to shove it in a very polite way and fixed the issue.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

in all fairness, most developers that are still passionate about code aren't looking for promotion anyway, because usually once you hit the management level positions you do far less code and more bureaucracy bullshit, and what code you do is usually limited to guidance or review.

Now being passed on raises or laid off? that might be annoying.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This. I avoid management positions like the plague. I already don't like having to deal with my own performance review. I don't want to deal with several other people's. I'll take the pay hit.

[–] alkaliv2@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Had this experience today. It was incredibly frustrating. Had to meme about it since I can't get approval for my fix until tomorrow at 9am in another meeting.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 1 week ago

I feel you friend. Just remember to write status updates at regular intervals so that stakeholders can see it. If you're blocked, make sure people know that you are and why so they don't start thinking it's you who is slowing down

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

No excuses to participate online only?