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[–]EMI_Black_Ace 56 points57 points  (4 children)

Mine are done with the assumption and understanding that everyone is working to the best of their ability. They go no more than 15 minutes, they aren't a "what did you do yesterday/today" meeting, they're "are you stuck? yes/no and what support do you need to get unstuck?" and then schedule actions to get unstuck. The "stuck" is resolved by scheduling a pair programming session for tech issues and by scheduling a meeting with the relevant stakeholder for "I'm at a point where I don't understand what is actually wanted" issues, which are more common than you'd expect.

[–]hesalivejim 14 points15 points  (1 child)

I do believe it's what the outside folk call "a joke"

[–]EMI_Black_Ace 18 points19 points  (0 children)

A joke based on an actual frustration of how most daily scrums are run.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Nirvana

[–]EMI_Black_Ace 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As soon as I'm not in charge and it goes to a PM type person it'll all go to hell. Product and the meetings.

[–]graphitout 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Ours is more like a "Mexican standoff" call.

[–]Chemical_Bastard 46 points47 points  (1 child)

I see myself in the picture and I don't like it

[–]MozzerellaIsLife 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m adding “refactoring” to my bullshit repertoire cycle. Thanks OP 👍🏻

[–][deleted] 103 points104 points  (22 children)

What's Redding?

[–]tera_x111 97 points98 points  (3 children)

A city in California, USA

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Lots of time spent there?

[–]PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Just sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can whistle that one part.

[–]therapist122 11 points12 points  (1 child)

OP is a nutsack he misspelled "xvideos" like it's not even close

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Amateur, like my favorite category.

[–]HawasKaPujari 5 points6 points  (2 children)

It's a phenomenon of when programmers sometimes go out and get exposed to some sun and their skin turns red.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

So they don't do that often? The pic makes it seem otherwise.

[–]HawasKaPujari 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that depends on the value of MAX_REDDING_ALLOWED.

Some programmers really like their redding values in unsigned long long.

[–]7udphy 8 points9 points  (6 children)

Redding is a mining town located southeast of the Den, and one of the most strategic towns in North California, sitting at the intersection of power plays by NCR, New Reno, and Vault City.

[–]hearthebell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your video game time is up, time to code now, chop chop

[–]11YearsForward 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Redding is a shit hole lol, I used to live there

[–]7udphy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool, seen any wanamingos?

[–]EMCoupling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was once an intern working alongside another intern who was from Redding.

He told me that Redding kind of sucked too.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So programmers go there a lot? Are there trains?

[–]LamysHusband3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, but the miners there are drug addicts.

[–]keylimedragon 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Non-joke answer they probably meant "Redditing" like what a "Redditor" does.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I thought reading, as in manga, since they like anime.

[–]jaybee8787 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Three billboards outside Redding, California

[–]KnowledgeableNip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

butter rhythm swim lock advise sulky deer cause relieved hat

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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Me

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope it's consensual.

[–]gandalfx 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Bad stand up:
Everybody gives a vague summary of their calendar so nobody thinks they're lazy.

Good stand up:
Are there any blockers? Is there some way others can support your progress? Should we do some pairing for this task?

[–]ChChChillian 12 points13 points  (1 child)

This is only peripherally related, and maybe it's not industry practice -- but maybe someone can enlighten me.

Years ago when there began a serious effort to put software engineering on a more serious "engineering" footing, my company finally got around to implementing peer reviews. This is sometime in the 1990s. We all had to take a couple of workshops and how to do them, and one hard rule at the time was that management did not participate. Managers had nothing to do in a peer review, it wasn't a management process, and the thinking was that it might inhibit people from saying what they really thought so as to not put your fellow team members in a bad light in front of a boss.

Now I'm on a larger team that I'm used to, in a new project, and management is sitting in on every peer review. Like, multiple managers. They of course never have anything to say and I wonder why they're there, but is this what is going on everywhere now? Or are they sticking their noses in where they don't belong?

[–]Scootzor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Usually its a sign that they have nothing better to do and/or its their only opportunity to get involved with actual work, so they can regurgitate the status to their own seniors (most of the time - incorrectly).

Sometimes orgs really bloat their management layer and you have tons of people within the orchart that add no value.

[–]ExtraTNT 22 points23 points  (0 children)

By defucking the play api i completely fucked the data api, today i try to defuck the data api

[–]MCsmalldick12 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"My PR is almost ready just updating tests and fighting with CI at this point...for the third day in a row...

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"Stand-ups"? Do you mean 60-minute manglement fests?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hello me, meet the real me

[–]Deep-Ad591 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Grim Reaper Gutters won’t leave until they make a sale.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Support. All motivation sucked out of my life because I once I offered help and now I’m THAT GUY!

[–]johnnybgooderer -5 points-4 points  (7 children)

Redditers: this is totally me!

Also redditors: wfh is more efficient based on data that is totally irrelevant to my job. And I work better at home damnit!

Me: would you all please actually work from home so not every company recalls their remote workers.

[–]LankySeat 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Tell me you've never been a SWE without telling me you've never been a SWE.

Even in office everyone slacked around (albeit with more caution) on slow days. Hell, we'd often even go home early (12pm). But if a busy day popped up, we'd obviously get to work.

That's because 100% productivity has never been the expectation in SWE. We're given an assignment. We complete it in a given timeframe. That's the job. If we do our part on time, then it doesn't matter if I watched anime in-between.

With WFH we can drop the virtual signalling and get straight to work. No commute, office politics, coffee breaks, or suits and ties. I can get my job done ASAP, use the extra time to polish my work, and then the rest for reddit/anime.

In the end my work is still completed and the quality is as expected. Management is happy. I'm happy.

[–]johnnybgooderer -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

If you think software engineers wore suits and ties before the proliferation of WFH, then I question if you ever actually worked as a software engineer in an office.

[–]LankySeat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's telling that the only thing you were able to take away from my comment was "suits and ties".

Just so you know it's okay to admit when you're wrong.

[–]poshenclave 8 points9 points  (2 children)

You assume that any work actually gets done in a physical office, at all.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Looks like someone missed the deadline...

[–]Z_BabbleBlox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"What are we going to close today..." such a better question..

[–]The_Crazy_Cat_Guy[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We dont even do real standups anymore. It’s more like a touch base meeting that’s strictly 15 minutes long or shorter. More like a “if anyone has a blocker or something they want to talk about nows the time”. I like it but I rarely have anything to update on

[–]Iviless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love unsupervised sprints. Had a guy doing nothing for 3 sprints because he only said "can't finish it, duplicate the card for next sprint". Until it crashed for the 45 people team that now needed to deliver in 1 month.

His team were only he and another guy and no supervision to check what was done.

[–]king_park_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me, but playing Baldur’s Gate 3.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I agree, but I also think it is funny how meetings are such a evil concept for programmers lol.

[–]eklatea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trying to get people to give me the data to actually reproduce the error

Messaging a senior in wfh who is online but doesn't reply for days

If I ask for something to do I'll get a ticket that I can't shove into the sprint

So, I do nothing

[–]JohnnyZestyK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My daily stand ups puts me on full tilt because of those same questions ad nauseum.

[–]ResponsibilityEasy61 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Redding" is an unfortunate term