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We have shit standups on my team. People show up 5 minutes late to standup so we don't actually start for like 5-10 min past start time.

I get it, not all are morning people. Please mute your mic, I really don't want to hear you yawn half a dozen times. It's obnoxious. If you're talking and you need to yawn, just mute for a second.

I know you're still working on this ticket (what's the point of JIRA otherwise?), just tell me if you need help on it or are blocked. That's more important to the team.

Standups over zoom or as a dedicated meeting are honestly a waste of time when people show up late or yawn just to go over mostly the same status every day. Just post your update in slack, let others know if you have any blockers.

I'm pretty much checked out these days, so I don't really care. What should be a 5 min exercise (90% of the time) turns into 20 minutes of pain. Others enjoy it as it is though, so I don't really care. Also every other meeting is similar nowadays too, way too lax and people seem to be okay being slow/lazy.



> I get it, not all are morning people

This is why I prefer standups to be right before lunch (back when you'd have lunch with your coworkers). People are awake and have a reason to not want things to drag on.

Of course, when one of your coworkers is on the west coast (and the rest are on the east coast), it's not lunch time for everyone, but it still tends to go quicker than if the meeting was an hour earlier.




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