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Shopify discourages meetings by shaming employees with cost calculator
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Re: Shopify discourages meetings by shaming employees with cost calculator
#52A big problem with the pivot to WFH is that meeting sizes were no longer bound by the physical size of a room. The result was that meetings could explode in size to dozens of people as anyone and everyone vaguely related to an issue was pulled in. Now I've heard some say that that's not a big problem because people can "work" on other things while being present in the meeting waiting until the small moment when they…
My company semi regularly runs a company wide meeting with over 100 people in it to share announcements that aren’t relevant to any employees in my country. The whole thing could be a newsletter and be just as effective without taking an hour from every employee.
Re: Shopify discourages meetings by shaming employees with cost calculator
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
My insinuation here is if you get "nailed for insubordination, loafing or sexual harassment" while hanging out with your friends... You may be in fact be performing "insubordination, loafing or sexual harassment." while hanging out with friends. Should you be nailed for those? Maybe. Should you be doing those? Maybe?
I do have single female friends with pretty eyes, and they're quite receptive to sincere compliments, so I feel sorry for you if that seems unfair. In fact, it would be unfair to my friends if I didn't flirt with them a little and increase those bonds of trust and intimacy. Do you even know the definitions of "insubordination" or "loafing"? How could I possibly do those things in my leisure time outside of work with…
I said "Should you be nailed for those? Maybe".
So yes I do agree with most of your comment but you did skip past the sexual harrassment one.
Re: Shopify discourages meetings by shaming employees with cost calculator
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do have single female friends with pretty eyes, and they're quite receptive to sincere compliments, so I feel sorry for you if that seems unfair. In fact, it would be unfair to my friends if I didn't flirt with them a little and increase those bonds of trust and intimacy. Do you even know the definitions of "insubordination" or "loafing"? How could I possibly do those things in my leisure time outside of work with…
I said "Should you be nailed for those? Maybe". So yes I do agree with most of your comment but you did skip past the sexual harrassment one.
Yes, I did, because that's a different animal. "Sexual harrassment" is of course a crime and a sin, but the same behavior patterns in a different context could be welcomed and pleasurable. Also, I used the term "nailed" to refer to punishment, but of course that's a sexual double-entendre.
If a coworker is discussing a task in a meeting with me and I DM her to say she has pretty eyes, that's (1) off-topic (2) unexpected and (3) unprofessional. Now, coworker may welcome the compliment and she may think I was nice to say it, and it was a DM, so others may not find out. Who knows, we could go out for coffee later and begin dating, if she's not my supervisor.
If my friends are hanging out by the pool and I turn to a single friend wearing a bikini and discreetly, sincerely, tell her she has pretty eyes, that's (1) on-topic (2) unsurprising and (3) what good friends do. Perhaps my friend doesn't welcome such a comment or shuns the attention and tells me to stop. If I'm her friend, then I'll respect that boundary. If I'm aggressive, and disrespect her boundaries, then I'm sexually harrassing her, we won't stay friends. In fact I could be ejected from the whole social circle.
But between these two scenarios, the former is something I would never, ever do. Yeah, I notice when a coworker is attractive, but telling them about it is crossing the line. There's no reason for me to go down that road at work.
On the other hands, perhaps I pay too few compliments to my single female friends. I often admire them and they catch me looking, but I think at that point a man needs to say what's on his mind and see whether she's receptive to that kind of attention. And I don't and perhaps I'm regarded as a creep, and that's why I'm single.
Re: Shopify discourages meetings by shaming employees with cost calculator
#55I’m sure Scrum has cost 50 billion or so in process bureaucracy.
Scrum is the symptom, not the problem. If the management doesn’t change you’ll have just as many wasted full meetings under any methodology.
At least in Waterfall, devs are considered powerless drones and don't attend them.