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Root
2y

bitchface micromanager keeps telling me i don't communicate enough, don't do enough, am not fast enough, etc.

So i've been sending her a weekly summary of ~50 bullet points of things I did during the week, issues encountered, workarounds found, research findings, who i talked to, etc. all organized by task with links to the tickets.

My work volume hasn't increased (probably decreased, actually) but it certainly looks like I'm doing a lot. probably because i am? but she doesn't listen during standup, so... victory by a hundred bullet points it is!

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  • 39
    I also asked her for more work three times over the past two days. No response, and I've finished all of my other work.

    Guess that means I get the rest of the day off :)
  • 10
    @Root hahaha nice! That's some good MaliciousCompliance right there.
  • 12
    Same problem I faced when I was working for a logistic company. They often use the "you not communicating" as an excuse to portrait you as the potential threat to the company with the intention to fire you.
  • 4
    I can tell it's a @root's rant w/o even opening it. It's got a speciffic scent... ๐Ÿ˜
  • 4
    @johnmelodyme That is totally her intention. But I dislike her, so I’m making it difficult :)
  • 3
    Sounds like you've successfully tailored your communication style to their needs.
  • 3
    It’s the second coming of @Harambe!
  • 1
    @Root all you can do is to prove and keep evidences that she was the one who wasn't communicating all along...
  • 2
    Changelog of my LIFE.

    - malicious compliance department.
  • 10
    In a similar situation once I reported a non existing bug, causing panic for an afternoon, reported that the bug was solved and got praised in front of others because I used Jira to report my work ๐Ÿ˜ˆ
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    There was a similar situation
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    82 bullet points this week, over five tickets and two other tasks.

    Malicious compliance, totally, but holy crap I did a lot this week.

    And my time tracker says only 25% of my 40h tracked time was actually productive (research, code, specs, docs). Most of the rest was spent dying or talking.

    They don’t deserve me.
  • 5
    I’m working in a really messy collection of projects right now. I spent three weeks tugging on a piece of spaghetti. Manager requested that I connect them to jira tickets and have them on branches.

    I had a chain of 14 tickets in jira in to-do which all depended on another. I couldn’t do branches because it was way too messy but I linked them to commit messages. Sprint burn down became burn up and we ended the last sprint with more points in to-do than we had at the start of the sprint.

    I wasted so much time on process. I could have had them done in a sprint if I hadn’t been furiously documenting everything. Then I had to wait for review before continuing so many times.
  • 3
    she’s definitely taking classes of “micro-gement” from Michael Scott.
  • 0
    I fell in that trap before. It works ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฝ‍โ™‚๏ธ
  • 0
    You're still alive right ?
  • 0
    @AvatarOfKaine Hi. I’m on vacation! ๐Ÿน๐Ÿ™‹๐Ÿป‍โ™€๏ธ
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    @Root why does everyone else seem to have some kind of endless retard games they're allowed to play.

    Where is my damn cabin ?
  • 0
    @Root just seems like all my fun and games few that there were never reach me because Ive been given some extreme reservations, in short threatened, about being "creative"
  • 0
    @AvatarOfKaine Watching my 4yo play Portal 2
  • 0
    @Root sigh. At least it isn't hitman or fable or grand theft auto

    How many 4 year olds have you had?
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    @Root well hopefully they're growing up as they should since I don't remember that being the response at least once before
  • 0
    @AvatarOfKaine Time tends to move forward.
  • 0
    @Root yes so this is an old picture and he is in his teens now ?
  • 0
    @AvatarOfKaine You really are crazy, aren’t you?
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    @Root @Root nope just truthful
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