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I’m both a remote maximalist, and a Zoom hater.
I reconciled this by eliminating meetings. Turns out, 99% of all software can be built, managed, scaled, and sold asynchronously.
I’m both a remote maximalist, and a Zoom hater.
I reconciled this by eliminating meetings. Turns out, 99% of all software can be built, managed, scaled, and sold asynchronously.
Contrast that with grad school, where every minute of my meetings with my advisors was time well spent.
I’d think managers would see the elimination of meetings as a direct threat to their job. So I don’t have any good suggestions.
You could just try skipping them? See if you get in trouble? Push it all the way to getting a pip. That’s what I’d do lol.
After a while, you can stop informing them as they've gotten used to your absence and realised you aren't needed. Whoever remains in these meetings tend to feel even better selling each others thin air without practical participants making negative comments during those discussions.
It worked for me. Of course beware there could be retaliation on principle. If that's the case you better update your CV and start seeking another remote position anyway.
Not joining meetings should provide you with as much time saved to focus on actual work. Growing competence, and lead to higher/better throuput.
I've seen a number of people playing the "let's be heard/noisy" card. It often works for a while but not in the long term.
Time spent at "work" can be spent with a short sighted objective, or a long one.
Even if I made a mistake of interpretation and attending meetings can result in better outcomes, I would still favor mental health and maximising time spent to improving my competence, over fears to loose my job or not getting a promotion raises from the current employer.
Sitting at home never seeing, hearing, speaking, or interacting with people save for brief slack messages just doesn't seem like the best way to get recognition.
Can't agree more with you.