Timeline for A way to fight back the meeting-bongo, how dangerous is this idea?
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| Jul 9, 2023 at 9:09 | comment | added | kedavle | No, you are not just paid for your work or your time. You are also paid for your expertise. Which you don't utilize, if you are doing things which are harmful for the company with no push back. If someone asks you to steal from a co-worker or the company would you do it? If someone asks you to ignore security standards, would you do it? This is similar, just not extreme as the other examples. (I am not talking legally, I am talking ethically and self-preservation). What is in the best interest of your career and your company? Being in pointless meetings is damaging your career and the company. | |
| Jun 28, 2021 at 15:11 | comment | added | user3067860 | @Kat It's possible that the company thinks that the OP is contributing more as a meeting-listener than as a programmer. Depending on what the company is doing, it may be more valuable to spend 25 hours deciding how to push buttons and 15 hours pushing buttons, rather than just 40 hours pushing buttons. The idea of 40 hours spent pushing buttons is...just not accurate, at all. It's also well documented that developers spend even less time pushing buttons and more time on decision making processes as their career progresses. techhq.com/2019/05/coding-is-only-half-the-developers-job | |
| Jun 27, 2021 at 19:00 | comment | added | Ertai87 | @Kat Certainly. Hence, why I said, "apparently". If the company did not find value in OP meeting-listening, then OP would not be assigned to be meeting-listening. Because OP is assigned to meeting-listening, then either OP's boss does not realize that OP is assigned to so much meeting-listening, or OP's boss is aware, and OP's company finds value in OP meeting-listening. My answer addresses the first case; in the second case, it makes no sense to you, nor to me, but apparently it makes sense to management in OP's company, and who are we to judge? | |
| Jun 26, 2021 at 13:52 | comment | added | Kat | "That role, apparently, has value to the company." Does it, though? Do you think the company would really be happy if they knew OP could be producing twice as much? Just because the company pays you for your time and that's what you happen to be doing doesn't mean it's valuable. When it comes time to give out raises, who do you think they will go to? Not the person spending all day in meetings, that's for sure. | |
| Jun 26, 2021 at 6:00 | comment | added | enhzflep | Bingo. That's a great point to make with regards to time vs work. 20 years ago a mate worked in a maintenance workshop. The hours were 8-4.30pm, It was incredibly rare for any jobs to be handed out before 10:30am - 2.5+ hours of each day were spent making crude jokes in the lunch-room, reading the newspaper or looking out the window. This was a public transport scenario, in which the wrong delays are terrifyingly expensive - a year's salary is less than many mistakes there cost. The Romanians have a saying. "Is your goat. If you want me tie goat near lion, I tie goat near lion. Is your goat" | |
| Jun 25, 2021 at 23:18 | history | edited | Ertai87 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 25, 2021 at 23:12 | history | answered | Ertai87 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |