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Worst ones I've ever had, the dev manager was also still doing some dev work, mostly not on the company's main product, but other crap, but was in on the stand-ups and set the tone for it being a "moan about how hard your work is, to justify why we pay you" fest, by going into way too much detail about every little difficulty he had yesterday. This on top of the fact that there were like 6-7 people on these meetings, no more than two of whom were working on the same thing, so standups weren't even theoretically a good idea to begin with. The meetings existed only for him, and he was ensuring the form they took was terrible, stressful, and took up way too much time.

He also liked to take really shitty notes, then treat them like the gospel truth. I read my stand-ups from notes I'd written beforehand—never done that anywhere else, but the amount of crap one was evidently expected to talk about was large enough there, that I did, after the first week or two—so I could tell for a fact when he'd recorded something about mine that was flat-out wrong, and it was often.



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