• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      12 hours ago

      I like my project manager, they find me work, ask how I’m doing and talk straight.

      It’s when the CEO/CTO/CFO speaks where my eyes glaze over, my mouth sags, and I bounce my neck at prompted intervals as my brain retreats into itself as it frantically tosses words and phrases into the meaning grinder and cranks the wheel, only for nothing to come out of it time and time again.

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        10 hours ago

        COs are corporate politicians, media trained to only say things which are completely unrevealing and lacking of any substance.

        This is by design so that sensitive information is centrally controlled, leaks are difficult, and sudden changes in direction cause the minimum amount of whiplash to ICs as possible.

        I have the same reaction as you, but the system is working as intended. Better to just shut it out as you described and use the time to think about that issue you’re having on a personal project or what toy to buy for your cat’s birthday.

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        11 hours ago

        Right, that sweet spot between too less stimuli so your brain just wants to sleep or run away and enough stimuli so you can’t just zone out (or sleep).

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        The number of times my CTO says we’re going to do THING, only to have to be told that this isn’t how things work…