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Death by a 1000 Standups

by niazangels on 5/21/25, 9:11 PM with 2 comments

• by TheMongoose on 5/21/25, 9:15 PM

  Why do you care if everyone starts work around the same time? And why in the name of DOG do you think that a meeting is the best way to enforce that?

  You were doing so well until you didn't say "so we got rid of them, end of post. Catch us next time"

• by PaulHoule on 5/21/25, 9:36 PM

  I've worked at two places that had 'Slack standups' in the morning. These don't really work for me because often I am 'swapped out' with whatever I was thinking about in the evening and I found it a distraction to write up exactly what I was up to and was planning to do.

  I switched to filling these out when I leave work instead of when I start so I have something to remind me of what I was working on and what I need to do next. I haven't once gotten a complaint.