Programming

That annoying standup was, at one point, in the very early morning every day of the week for me. I was promised a 30 minute meeting (which is a long time for a standup) and I was delivered an hour long meeting instead. And holy shit can people talk in circles for so fucking long.

But hey, it was a good opportunity for me to do literally anything but work while pretending to care about whatever the fuck the other subteam decided was important enough that day to keep 20 people occupied for 30 minutes past the end of the meeting.

As for processes in general? Management has shown and now proven that all they want are code monkeys. They do not care if the product works, nor do they care how well it works. As long as someone buys it, that's all they care about. Governments are supposed to regulate the rest of that stupid, useless shit like data protection, protecting users, preventing harm to people, ensuring people get what they paid for, and so on by making it economically unviable to ignore it (and ideally criminal, in the extreme cases). Instead, all they regulate these days are rampant inflation and accelerating wealth inequality. And by regulate, of course I mean they regulate anything designed to combat those things.