I once worked for a small startup with 5 people and a boss obsessed with scrum and that only had experience in big corporations.
It was a remote development job with lots of meetings:
-1 hour standups daily
-twice per week, 3 hour planning meetings on top of the daily standup
-Friday we had a 'watercooler' meeting for an hour after the standup, where we were supposed to 'tell jokes' or 'share a funny story'. Since most of the developers were overseas and from different countries/cultural backgrounds, it usually ended up being very awkward.
-twice/month we had a 4+ hour big-picture meeting on top of the daily standup
Sometimes, I would bill over half my weekly hours as meetings.
The strange part is that with all of these meetings, the tickets that would be assigned to me would be vague or filled with missing information. Even when I would have a 1-1 call with the boss to explain the ticket, she would talk in circles and could never give me the exact information I needed.
When I completed the ticket and didn't read her mind, things would have to be re-written.
I was eventually replaced by an overseas worker from India (the boss told me I was too expensive and she could hire someone from India for much less) and the company lost most of its investors within a few years.
It was a remote development job with lots of meetings:
-1 hour standups daily -twice per week, 3 hour planning meetings on top of the daily standup -Friday we had a 'watercooler' meeting for an hour after the standup, where we were supposed to 'tell jokes' or 'share a funny story'. Since most of the developers were overseas and from different countries/cultural backgrounds, it usually ended up being very awkward. -twice/month we had a 4+ hour big-picture meeting on top of the daily standup
Sometimes, I would bill over half my weekly hours as meetings.
The strange part is that with all of these meetings, the tickets that would be assigned to me would be vague or filled with missing information. Even when I would have a 1-1 call with the boss to explain the ticket, she would talk in circles and could never give me the exact information I needed.
When I completed the ticket and didn't read her mind, things would have to be re-written.
I was eventually replaced by an overseas worker from India (the boss told me I was too expensive and she could hire someone from India for much less) and the company lost most of its investors within a few years.