I’m in an open plan office. On Mondays, one of our employees works from home. This means that every Monday, we all put our headsets on and have a Slack call for an hour, 9 of us in the same room, one person remote, just so the boss can natter on about whatever they’ve been up to this weekend and how they think everybody else has been doing their jobs.
Then, the head of the marketing team will join in with a very rambly, unfunny, and irrelevant diatribe, which gets the boss talking again. We all sit for an hour while they talk about shit that is nothing to do with any of us, listening to their voices out loud and then a half second later in the headphones.
After that, I say about two sentences. The other developer says two sentences. The rest of marketing get through their tasklists. It’s ridiculous.
We’ve been told that we absolutely have to pay attention, so rather than working on a Monday morning, I now have to pause at 10:00am and sit in silence for an hour plus, waiting until my motivation and flow is completely crushed. Thankfully it’s only once a week but it’s just so stupid.
I’m in an open plan office. On Mondays, one of our employees works from home. This means that every Monday, we all put our headsets on and have a Slack call for an hour, 9 of us in the same room, one person remote, just so the boss can natter on about whatever they’ve been up to this weekend and how they think everybody else has been doing their jobs.
Then, the head of the marketing team will join in with a very rambly, unfunny, and irrelevant diatribe, which gets the boss talking again. We all sit for an hour while they talk about shit that is nothing to do with any of us, listening to their voices out loud and then a half second later in the headphones.
After that, I say about two sentences. The other developer says two sentences. The rest of marketing get through their tasklists. It’s ridiculous.
We’ve been told that we absolutely have to pay attention, so rather than working on a Monday morning, I now have to pause at 10:00am and sit in silence for an hour plus, waiting until my motivation and flow is completely crushed. Thankfully it’s only once a week but it’s just so stupid.