Some things are not very enjoyable, but still necessary.
Also, if your boss tells you to read the emails, and you don't, then you can get fired. You can't get fired from your job for not exercising. If you can ignore the emails and not get fired, that's proof in itself that the emails are not important, at least not to your boss.
The boss has no easy way to tell if you read the emails or not. The consequences of lack of information are often hidden / long term.
In many countries, it's pretty much impossible to fire employees for forgetting to read an email.
> If you can ignore the emails and not get fired, that's proof in itself that the emails are not important, at least not to your boss.
I'll try a proof in a similar style - if Scrum was so wildly inefficient, the companies practicing it would be a long time out of business since companies with no meetings would easily outcompete them by offering better products/services for lower costs. Yet Scrum (or similar methodologies) are used in many successful companies all over the world, that's a proof that Scrum works.
How do you like them now, these oversimplistic "proofs"?
What about "forgetting" to attend a 10 minute meeting?
> I'll try a proof in a similar style
It wasn't a similar style.
The instances of people not attending standups I've seen were just symptoms of a larger problem, and such people did not last long in the company.
Standups are one of these in my honest opionion.
The main point of stand-up/daily scrum is to set up collaborations and coordination. It's where you invite pairs, inform POs of blockers and discoveries that will lead to longer timelines etc.
If you're doing all that anyway, keep going and don't worry about stand-up.