[johnny99k]

10 years ago, I was a contractor for a small startup using SCRUM. We had literally 4 hours of meetings per/day. Every other week, we had an additional 1 hour planning meeting. I also had to laugh when she decided to add 'water cooler' meetings. We were developers from all over the globe forced to have awkward conversations.

It was strange as a developer to be paid to be in meetings more than actually coding. Especially in a company with 10 employees.

Eventually, the owner started having fits because we weren't getting anything done on time and she eventually let me go. At this point, I had already started a new business and was almost making enough to cover my basic expenses.

In the call when she let me go, she told me that she could hire 3 people in India to do my job, so that's what she was doing.