Don’t call me. The reason I take forever to get shit done is the 6 hours a day in unnecessary phone calls and meetings. You want shit done then stfu and let me work.
40 degrees is ridiculous. Steep slopes, people! NJ is pretty strict about that shit, although Alpine does what they want (because money, as I’m sure you can attest). People on top of hill don’t care about the impacts of erosion and groundwater at the bottom of the hill.
The place where I’ve worked for the last year and a half has been kind of rebuilding the whole product development team (including supporting cast like product and project managers) and using agile, etc.
So while we have some meetings, like daily stand-ups and the sprint planning & retrospective, for the most part they actively try to keep us engineers out of them. We get to work on the stuff that we’re supposed to work on, and all these other players work together to figure out what we should work on next without needing us there.
It’s a god dammed revelation! The engineers get to work on bugs and features rather than like at my last place where it was a mix of project management, financial justifications, inter-department meetings, scheduling, chasing people for stuff we need, and putting out fires on the production floor. Oh and then engineering shit every now and then.
Don’t call me. The reason I take forever to get shit done is the 6 hours a day in unnecessary phone calls and meetings. You want shit done then stfu and let me work.
“Just wanted to make sure you didn’t forget your tasks”
“Did you get that email I just sent?”
Are you my landlord?
I’m a bureaucrat in a tiny city that’s an enclave for the mega-rich. The average new home price is 20x the surrounding area.
But have more billionaires in the city than municipal employees, and billionaires and their minions are needy as fuck.
25,000 square foot houses built on a 40- degree hillside can’t be approved in 3 days no matter how rich your ass is.
40 degrees is ridiculous. Steep slopes, people! NJ is pretty strict about that shit, although Alpine does what they want (because money, as I’m sure you can attest). People on top of hill don’t care about the impacts of erosion and groundwater at the bottom of the hill.
The place where I’ve worked for the last year and a half has been kind of rebuilding the whole product development team (including supporting cast like product and project managers) and using agile, etc.
So while we have some meetings, like daily stand-ups and the sprint planning & retrospective, for the most part they actively try to keep us engineers out of them. We get to work on the stuff that we’re supposed to work on, and all these other players work together to figure out what we should work on next without needing us there.
It’s a god dammed revelation! The engineers get to work on bugs and features rather than like at my last place where it was a mix of project management, financial justifications, inter-department meetings, scheduling, chasing people for stuff we need, and putting out fires on the production floor. Oh and then engineering shit every now and then.
Different types of roles, but still.