Daily Prompt: 2024-05-08
Do you have a random tech-related pet peeve? Does a co-worker always open pull requests at the worst time? Does your boss send you a slack message immediately after emailing you to tell you about the email?
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@sudorandom only saying Hey in chat https://nohello.net/en/
It is 10x worse when it’s your manager. (Am I being fired?)
@bentsai I link that website every time I get "heyed". It really does spike my stress levels when this happens and it's frustratingly easy to avoid!
Meetings with no agenda.
Meetings where no one is prepared so we spend several people's time watching someone do their work.
Meetings to prep for another meeting.
Meetings.
@sudorandom If your meeting does not at least have a summary of what we will discuss, I am going to assume either 1) I am getting fired, or 2) this meeting should have been an email.
@sudorandom When I started at my current company, I had to put https://www.nohello.com/ back in my IM status field.