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Re:Meetings *Are* the Work by teeray on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:15PM (#34939520)
Some people are also just lousy at expressing their thoughts in writing. When asked to render an opinion, those people will default to the response: “let’s have a call about this” instead. Invariably, that call ends up just being a brain dump of their disorganized thinking.
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Re:Meetings *Are* the Work by quectophoton on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:24PM (#34939601)
I'm working with software developers like this. It might be coincidence, but they are the same ones that actively push for writing less documentation[1] and also the ones creating Jira tickets with only a title and absolutely no description.

[1]: Documentation needed by teams in a different continent to be able to communicate and integrate with our service, I must add.

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Re:Meetings *Are* the Work by charlie0 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @06:13PM (#34941400)
As someone with disorganized thinking, I'll counter with this. Documentation and clearer writing is the antidote. If the people around you can't do either, it's time to switch teams.
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