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I think this is "cargo management" - a low rate stuff.

I think this is "cargo management" - a low rate stuff. Bad psychology. Bad management. First of all, so called introverts usually are deliberately avoiding to be dragged into a meeting with idiots. Instead, they prefer and actively using different forms of communication, which does not demand to exercise any social skills in public, like mailing lists or forums, which saves them from an unpleasant burden and discomfort. Those who are unable to understand such simple premise are qualified for idiots. Secondly, most of meetings are irrelevant waste of time - ritualized events, designed for "parasitic" management to justify its existence and status. This statement could be easily supported by successful existence of project like LLVM, Linux Kernel, BSD, Webkit, you name it, which gives a remarkable results without any explicit, well-paid management and idiotic artificial "productivity" metrics and rituals of loyalty and status of any hierarchical social groups. It is OK to have an "emergency" meeting in some special occasion. It is tolerable to deal with incompetent management in cases when it solves real problems and shields techies from distractions, but being forced to meet weak-minded, role-playing idiots, for the sake of their gratification from a meaningless public performance, who will encourage me to share yourself completely - no, thank you. That's why, perhaps, I am not utilized at any Java sweatshop. But I had enough meetings in my IT career.)

Posted by dschiptsov on Mar 15, 2015, 4:20 PM

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I think this is "cargo management" - a low rate stuff.

dschiptsovMar 15, 2015, 4:20 PM

I think this is "cargo management" - a low rate stuff. Bad psychology. Bad management. First of all, so called introverts usually are deliberately avoiding to be dragged into a meeting with idiots. Instead, they prefer and actively using different forms of communication, which does not demand to exercise any social skills in public, like mailing lists or forums, which saves them from an unpleasant burden and discomfort. Those who are unable to understand such simple premise are qualified for idiots. Secondly, most of meetings are irrelevant waste of time - ritualized events, designed for "parasitic" management to justify its existence and status. This statement could be easily supported by successful existence of project like LLVM, Linux Kernel, BSD, Webkit, you name it, which gives a remarkable results without any explicit, well-paid management and idiotic artificial "productivity" metrics and rituals of loyalty and status of any hierarchical social groups. It is OK to have an "emergency" meeting in some special occasion. It is tolerable to deal with incompetent management in cases when it solves real problems and shields techies from distractions, but being forced to meet weak-minded, role-playing idiots, for the sake of their gratification from a meaningless public performance, who will encourage me to share yourself completely - no, thank you. That's why, perhaps, I am not utilized at any Java sweatshop. But I had enough meetings in my IT career.)

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