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by playingalong 671 days ago
Lack of clear goals from the management.

Too many meetings, especially the recurring ones. Domination of spoken culture instead of written for collaboration.

Lack of proper sleep and rest. Working outside of your normal brain activity hours.

Sudden fire drills - "unforeseen" audit with deadline next Tuesday, a security vulnerability mentioned in TV and you needing to redeploy/upgrade everything ASAP.
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el_benhameen 671 days ago
> Domination of spoken culture instead of written for collaboration.

I have sometimes wondered if this was just me. Glad to see it listed. I can’t count the number of times that “oh yeah, we talked about that and decided xyz” or “do you remember where we landed on abc in that meeting?” in a distributed environment.

I can’t force others to communicate about everything in writing, but I’ve learned to take detailed notes of my own thought processes and to write down everything important that happened in a meeting or conversation immediately after it finishes.

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cabraca 671 days ago
> I have sometimes wondered if this was just me.

Same for me and even if you have notes you will get "thats not what i said", "thats not how i remember it", etc.

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wild_egg 671 days ago
Send the notes out afterwards and have them validated
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collingreen 670 days ago
Meetings not degrading and wasteful enough? Make your employees also fill out a questionnaire and affidavit of a written summary of their potentially nuanced words to really move that morale needle!
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dkga 670 days ago
Actually there is one way, which we use frequently at work and is quite effective. One of the participants has a screen shared and types in bullet points on topics and action points. In the final minute we just go over them and then as soon as the meeting ends the person presses send to all participants. Anyone not explicitly objecting shortly afterwards (which they wont because they just saw it being typed live and were asked again) would be tacitly confirming it. No extra hassle, and in fact less hassle.
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weebull 671 days ago
Careful now. You'll be saying waterfall processes are a good thing.
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