I hope she was being dramatic! 😨

Excellent! It is always nice to see people asking questions - the journey towards the answer should prove most enlightening! :-D

No way! (I go for the full 2 rather than mere 1.5 that the cursor is paused on here:-P)

Yeah phase 1 is optional, some of us only wish that we were that sophistumicashiated as all that!

Something something by my bootstraps…

There is something horribly symbolic in all of that 🤮👿📚

It seems (a little) akin to burning books: sure maybe you can get away with doing whatever you wish to a printed copy that you purchase (legally speaking), but that doesn’t mean that we (the bystanders) should rush to enjoy using the final product of the endeavor.

Don’t they do this already? Except the manual labor part: they get us to build the fort. And do all the crime. And give them all the pets. Yes master? They do not care about money though, only raw pawer. 😁

Cats bounce, and next you know they’ll be begging you to do it again:-)

(Probably it’s best not to indulge though - don’t want to encourage that habit:-P)

Eating pizza cheese makes someone immortal confirmed 👌

Be careful!

On the bright side, tomorrow is Wednesday, my dudes 😎

Well said 😁

It’s probably a bit of both. You likely will get downvoted heavily though and to explain: the rule in this community is that whenever something is both normal and yet exaggerated in the case of someone with actual (whether diagnosed or not) ADHD, the latter is presumed.

People get just SO TIRED of neurotypicals taking over EVERY conversation and need a safe space to talk and maybe even vent, yeah?

But in this case it really is worth noting, as you did, that even so, smartphone usage can be a contributing factor in making other/existing things worse off, setting aside things like medication status and whatnot.

I keep trying to escape, but I do need a paycheck so… [rolls up sleeves] back into the fray I go, once more! :-|

Yes, this is greatly to be feared:-). But at least you will have a job, other than “factory worker” like everyone else seems to be geared into becoming (either that or soilent green / food - I wish I were joking, though possibly the person in charge who put forth that idea was joking at least? I mean… unless we are into it? No? Okay we can wait on that one…).

You will just have to manage all of the products that the company can force upon you, while they do the “real” work - of golfing, ofc! 😉

Also I now realize that my above messages were slightly incorrect - they were for the “Project Manager” role, which is distinct from your role as “Product Owner”, and then “Product Manager” is a whole other thing… I guess, but I have no idea what the latter is supposed to do, really.

Tbf that seems like the proper response to me.:-)

Normal human ways of thinking go like: however you do it, so long as the job gets done it’s fine! ☺️

PM thinking: even if nothing ever gets done, so long as I collect a salary we continue to have 3 hours of meetings most days every week, it’s all good! 🤔🤯

Also, afaik, the conflict between the PO and PM roles is somehow literally the point? You get blamed if the tasks don’t get done, while the PM ensures that endless reports get generated - I doubt the vast most of which are ever read, and I know that I for one can never find one of those later, in part bc there are so many of them and they encompass everything else into them as well (Jira tickets, Slack messages, hundreds of emails per day mostly saying “this Jira ticket or that Confluence page has been edited”, the former of which for the life of me I cannot figure out how to turn off!).

So… not only I but we all feel your pain! Otoh, that seems one of the first job roles that will soon be replaced by AI?

The circular justification of a PM’s job, see how much value they add!?

Mentally speaking, I am not so much here. Let that sink in… :-P