iByteABit [comrade/them]

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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • I thankfully have real work to do generally, but the corporate stuff on the side is completely infuriating to me.

    Just pointless rituals one after the other, driven by people who serve as the middle men who keep the executives safe from harm and from having to talk to workers, while fully believing that their fake busy work is something of essense.

    Most of it consists of logging our work to various company platforms every day, when it’s completely possible for management to derive all of that data from a single source instead. One of the tasks is updating the task’s story points (an effort estimation of sorts) after the task is complete according to the time it took, while the time is also separately logged by us and updating the estimations defeats the point of estimating in the first place.

    It’s complete insanity, and the only real purpose of it is so some corporate analyst/consultant/whatever who has not the slightest idea of what the real job consists of, gets to see some red and green lines on a chart, thinking that any of that data bears any relation to reality.