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  • folkrav@lemmy.catoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Just a quick meeting
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    2 days ago

    I too had those hour long snoozefests where 99% of what’s said doesn’t pertain to my work, and those useless meetings that could have been a message on a Slack channel. I still feel like the sentiment is a very broad generalization based on some assumptions that may or may not apply well to every work environment.

    My most recent project has direct dependencies between 5 teams just on the developer side, and multiple internal and external clients. Figuring out if we need to reach out to the stakeholders or figuring out who can help them on a particular task isn’t necessarily always that straightforward, depending on scope.

    Anecdotally, the devs on my team were losing a lot of their time doing all that stuff before I joined as a tech lead in August. I spend most of my non-dev time (about 50% of my time, lately) shielding the rest of the team from stakeholders, pushing back when needed, pushing back on various demands, enabling communication lines, all to protect them from context switching and let them code.

    And honestly… Outside all that, agreeing with me or not, is 15 minutes of human interaction that terrible lol?

  • folkrav@lemmy.catoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Just a quick meeting
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    2 days ago

    we don’t need managers we need people helping us getting the tools we need and trust that what we do

    The word “manager” is extremely overloaded and barely says anything about what that person does for its team without knowing how the company operates. Where I work, the person you’re describing would be someone in technical management.

  • folkrav@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How can I get better at talking?
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    5 days ago

    If you legitimately speak like xQc, the first thing I’d tell you is to slow the hell down. That guy would probably get as much information out in the same amount of time, but easier to understand, if he just didn’t try speaking that fast. Last I heard it, even his québécois french was slurred.

    As to finding the right words when speaking, it tends to come with knowing your subject well enough, and having decent vocabulary.

    Past that, if you do struggle with the very act of translating ideas into the physical act of speaking, it could be a speech disorder which could likely benefit from speech therapy.