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by bilvar 490 days ago
Oh my god, if my manager asked me to waste my time on such trivialities - or even worse, calling team meetings to “discuss” them so that we can now collectively waste our time, I would quit the next moment. During my exit interview I would state that my manager was an imbecile, incompetent and the reason I am leaving.
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> calling team meetings to “discuss” them so that we can now collectively waste our time

it's not a dedicated meeting conversation. I would probably post it as a slack thread. If anyone wants to put their thoughts in, go ahead. If you don't, fine.

Number of people in the team who don't post by the end of the day ==> number of people who don't care.

Number of people in the team who do post by the end of the day ==> number of people who do care.

if number of people who do care > number of people who don't care, read the comments on the train home and have a think about what to do about it.

> During my exit interview I would state that my manager was an imbecile, incompetent and the reason I am leaving.

Well... that sounds like a good way to burn a reference.

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> waste my time on such trivialities

in your own individual personal opinion this thing is trivial.

being part of a team means being part of a larger whole. whatever that looks like — including if other people on the team don’t share your opinion, or have similar but different opinions.

funnily enough the article explicitly mentions differing opinions being a good thing.

Your job as a manager is to cut noise down for your team, so that they can focus on the signal. If you cannot decide on your own that some things are just plain silly and not worth their time to democratize the decision, then you’re not cut out for this job - sorry.