I will if there is a regularly scheduled meeting to discuss such matters. If the company is fine with you taking the day off, take it!
And yeah, I also can't agree more with your assessment about status reports being this relic from the past. What is this? The military? "SITREP. NOW!" Such a waste of breath, time, human life.
I feel we should separate these two things into async slack status reports and them regularly maybe bi weekly 30 minute team building meetings where no work is being talked about.
How did we get to the point where we determined that the only way to get anything out of developers was to setup a meeting to force it out? Telling them they must provide a status update on Slack instead is ultimately just a different cartoon character on the same basic bandaid – What is the actual problem here?
But I mean with respect to managers. The collaboration with them used to be exciting. What changed?
If one wants a status report, fine, have one periodically. But don't vaporize 30 minutes a day times 7 people just to go around the room talking. What a 1950s concept holy shit
I have never in my life met a professional who sits on their hands for 23 hours waiting to say "uh, I have a blocker, but wanted to save it for this magic 15 minutes to ask for help." Yes, fine, n00bs do that, and that's what TFA was saying that interns need supervision, who knew.