I microplaned myself
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People who have never shown any PM ability who decide to get dogmatic about Agile and talk to ‘coaches’ who have no understanding of the context and wtf I’m trying to accomplish here. And then share that back as ‘best practice’ as if I don’t know how to GSD.
No, we will not be inviting a senior stakeholder with a strong history of derailing, scope creep, pontificating, and terminology splitting hairs to our daily standup.
We will not assume the team can manage a 15 minute standup if they have never shown any ability to give an update on their own work in fewer than 20 minutes.
We will not say ‘a two week delivery cadence is Waterfall, and everything has a different level of effort’ when the people involved have been working on their things for 16 months and have DELIVERED ONE THING. And that thing was 3 weeks ago, and only happened after I did a coup 5 weeks ago.
And no, this is not up for group discussion before we decide on what will be accomplished over the next two weeks.
You have no credibility on this topic. You have used up any capital you should have. Stop the cargo cult information gathering about the bestest way to do something, and start doing something.
Fail fast. Test & learn. Be vulnerable and roll up your sleeves and start the work.
That’s what you claim to care about. Do it.
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I would like to hire you to work in a department of my company that I don’t even work in.
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I have a zit where my butt bone meets the chair. Want to see?
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i finally fell asleep somewhere between 4:30 and 5:00 am. My shift started at 6 am. It’s gonna be a long day.
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A bunch of SirB’s direct competitors have furloughed workers, given 20% pay cuts, etc. We know this because his district manager sent an email saying his company is NOT doing any of this and they’re actually doing quite well (and specifically his role, and he was second to the top earner for that role in his office). Still, now I’m terrified that if work dries up at all, the same will happen for him. Even though he was a high earner so far, he’s the Least senior person in the role.
Considering 50% of our take home pay already goes to rent… 
really hoping we don’t end up in a one bedroom, since he’s WFH when not at client sites and we have a baby who I’d eventually like to have her own room. And needs to nap and all that jazz. Daddy on the phone 5+ hours a day does not a good baby nap make.
This yammering complaint to basically say, my complaint is anxiety. 
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I feel like since I’m on lockdown my apartment should really be cleaner. It is beyond filthy.
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Saw a therapist on IG share: Some people cope with trauma by overfunctioning. Some by underfunctioning. Neither is wrong, both have their problems, but the important thing is we recognize that we’re collectively going through trauma and coping behaviors are expected. 
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I think I saw that same post, or similar. I am trying to be supportive and recognize this. It’s hard not to be resentful that I am the one working still AND I am the one using all my nonwork time to hustle my side business and look for other sources of income I can still do without leaving the house. While he rests. It feels imbalanced and unfair - I would very much like to rest too - but if I say anything he gets into this self-loathing spiral that is not conducive to him actually applying for jobs.
And also trying to grow us some food, handling pretty much all the logistics of how groceries happen (other than, he insists on personally picking out his own meat, which is fine because I became vegetarian at age 19 and have no idea how to select good meat), trying to remember to sanitize anything we touched with outside hands, etc.
I think this is turning into a large complaint so I’ll stop here.
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Ahhh I thought you meant frustration with yourself type deal, didn’t read carefully. Yeah, extreme imbalance of work is a pretty legit complaint 
sorry.
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I think I’m both of these people?
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Hiii! Yes, yes this is me. Did I do that work thing I was supposed to? Nope! But did I meticulously design a gundam for the hamsters I don’t have yet? You bet it did!
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It’s kind of a little of both, actually, now that I think about it. I am frustrated with myself too that I cannot work 80% full-time schedule, hustle my business, find other ways to make money, grow food (which at this time of year involves keeping a tight watch on the weather so I can rush all my containers indoors when there’s frost or snow), make groceries happen, make sure we’re not contaminating ourselves, AND keep the house spotless.
This is, I’m realizing, absolutely gendered. 
Also, my damn toilet seat still hasn’t shipped even though it was supposed to arrive this weekend and I’m tired of gingerly raising the seat so it doesn’t fall off completely and bang on the floor (or land on my foot, which also happened.
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Um, we need a picture of this now. I don’t know how you don’t know this.
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Oh, you’re the FUN engineering sort.
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Wait… you’re getting hamsters?! 
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It isn’t Friday yet.
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Uh…yeah. In the last month, I have not done half of the un-fun stuff on my to-do list. I have still somehow found time for making a weekly of fun hats, a crochet blanket and the start of a murder mystery party…
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I mean, one of these days. But I’m tired of not having pets just because I’m renting, so hamsters seem like a good compromise
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Plus hammies are darling little fuzz potatoes!
Sorry I love animals.
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