Get job at small company, 20 employees maybe

>get job at small company, 20 employees maybe
>15-20 minute meetings every single morning where people report on yesterday's progress and outline their plan for the day, this despite the fact that everyone works independently on different projects
>owner of the company walks around telling you to sit up straight, dont say this, dont say that, dont put your cup there, dont eat here, dont do this this way, get off your phone, stop looking out the window
>checks over all your work
>unpaid lunch, no sick pay

Is this normal at small companies? Anyone experience stuff similar?

The pay is really good so I want to make this work but its pissing me off.

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yes. very. every small company i have worked for has done this. i would suggest just accepting it for what it is. if the money is good no worries. if the job isnt worth it then you will be looking for a better option eventually as it is.

Search for a new place. This is not normal except dailys if you work in software development or engineering

>sit up straight?
srsly

I work at a similarly small company and it's the complete opposite. Nobody gives a shit what you do as long as your job gets completed, but we get paid shit.

S-sauce?

> would suggest just accepting it for what it is
I'm trying because I know nothing I can say will change it.

Hmm.

Yes.

I used to work for a multibillion dollar turnover company and it was like you describe. Turn up drunk and sit with your feet up all day and it was fine so long as the work was done.

This, basically, OP needs to choose between an enjoyable workplace or good pay.

When I started it was a small company and we also had the daily R&D meetings but everyone was working on vaguely related projects so sometimes you learned when someone else was solving the same problem as you, which was helpful.

also pay was shit but I liked the work so I stuck around for a while, eventually we got bought out and it got worse without pay getting better so I left

Yep, they're called "daily scrums" - they're pointless. If someone needs help they go to the person who could help them and ask, they don't work the rest of the day and wait until the 15 minute meeting the next morning. If you've got an employee who is going to wait 12+ hours to bring something up then they should be fired, not accommodated.

I can't handle that kind of shit either OP. Agile methodology was the worst thing that ever happened to software development. they have you logging ever minute of you day in Jira to see what tasks your working on too? it's so fucked up. resist.

Don't judge the method by poor implementations of it.

>15-20 minute meetings every single morning where people report on yesterday's progress and outline their plan for the day, this despite the fact that everyone works independently on different projects

holy shit i had those once a week and i thought they were completely pointless. I also had the micromanaging boss. seems like you also have a control freak boss.

everyone always says that but I've not seen it implemented in a way that doesn't feel like babysitting.

>Agile methodology was the worst thing that ever happened to software development. they have you logging ever minute of you day in Jira to see what tasks your working on too? it's so fucked up. resist.

That's what I felt in my previous job, where they also had me log every single minute of my day in Jira according to the issues I was working on. I would be okay with the logging if it wasn't required for the logged time to add up to 40 hours a week. At a regular software job, I'd say getting a good 4/5 hours of actual productive work would be a normal day. So in practice, this logging had the effect of extracting more work from the workers for the same pay.

It was really a shit job and I'm glad I've changed to a new one where there's no time tracking at all.

Considering that 90% or more of the implementations are shit, it's damn worth it to judge the method.

bump

lol, quit immeidiately

They're not pointless, they help all the members of the team to keep track of the other guys progress.

that's pointless

I have a 3 strikes rule for phone use for my new hires on probation.

They get 2 instances of being caught on their phone while on duty hours. The 3rd time I recommend they be withdrawn from training due to failure to adapt and adhere to workplace operating instructions.

I have ended the career of no less than 15 millenials smartphone addicted fuckstains this way. Once you get withdrawn from training you cannot reapply for another 4 years.

Feels fucking amazing. Btw I'm on my phone at work right now GET FUCKED LOSERS LMAO.

>proud of being a clueless middle manager
Yes boss, you deserve these millions boss

kek

This was laugh

I'd walk out desu

When you are valuable then you are treated well

why is it so hard to sit up straight and not to eat while in a meeting? boomers serm to have failed as parents.

I work on projects alone, everyone does, why does it matter how the other people are doing?

Why must someone sit up straight?

I work at a small company and it lame because everyone’s knows everyone’s business.
But on the other side also fuck working for huge corporations that will work you to death and never acknowledge you exist

I've honestly only heard this rebuttal from everyone. If no one can implement it right, that reflects on the entire methodology.

That's like saying, this printer works well but only gentoo can run its driver

not at mine. just got a 10 K pay raise today though :) now making 120 K. I'm 24 btw :)

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>has to be told to sit up

You sound like some spineless faggot

Boss sounds like a fucking neurotic kike

>>owner of the company walks around telling you to sit up straight, dont say this, dont say that, dont put your cup there, dont eat here, dont do this this way, get off your phone, stop looking out the window

I would tell him to fuck off and walk out of the job.

>turn on tracker
>fuck around on phone for two hours
>write 10 lines of code, make 5 commits with the Jira handle
Easy to game this system but I'm glad my company doesn't actually require a full 40 hour commitment. With our daily scrum and lunch I barely clock 6 hours a day.

Based. I have the same structure where I work. Its tolerable because I dont ever get called out for not hitting 8 hours or entering tickets late, but I admit my work would be easier without it. If you like to multitask forget about it. My issues are more with Jira than Agile though. What I really need is a function in jira that lets me link a ticket to a button on a tablet app or some other interface. Think like a drumpad type layout with text in the boxes. Start/stop timer automatically when another ticket button is pressed. Disappears and gets replaced with another ticket in the queue when closed or done for day. I just want to blow through my shit without stopping more than anything.

is your boss a boomer? i fucking hate boomer small business owners. such fucking big jews and no business sense.

based and phonepilled

heavy larp

She's beautiful

you're beautiful

My boss has:

>spreadsheet for everyone's tasks, we're supposed to take other people's tasks if we don't have that many
>meetings twice a week (down from 3x) where everyone's open tasks are reviewed and we're asked why X isn't done yet
>weekly meeting where we talk about what tasks were currently doing
>monthly one on one to overview how effectively we completed tasks (down from weekly)
>asked to record how long each task takes so performance metrics can be generated
This seems like a waste of time. Think of how many hours this wastes per week.

I've had jobs before where you send a very brief morning plan and an end of day list of things done, took about five minutes and was actually useful, what you describe I don't understand how someone thought would be beneficial.

No matter which company or how much money they shit in my wallet. If some normie npc cuck boss tells me to put my cup in a certain way and demands meetings every morning he can fuck off and kill himself.

I fucking dread all meetings that are more than 3 people. I can't stop gulping my saliva and sometimes it's loud. That's why I'm fucking doomed to never have steady employment or move up the ladder. I literally cannot psychologically handle large groups.

if you work for another man, you're a beta male. No exceptions.

You all seem content with wage slavery. Why not leave biz and never return?

spotted the beta insecure faggot
>inb4 i'm rich

Maybe the owner has a lot of money riding in his company and is just being extra douchey to make sure he doesn't lose it

It's sad knowing that she's probably been ass fucked by a negro.