Bonehead
So...Megatron is Satan? I've never actually considered this interpretation...
To give you some perspective, Disney World sees roughly 160,000 visitors a day. The EPCOT Center alone inside Disney World sees 34,000 visitors daily.
Bug? Or undocumented feature?
This is the kind of thing that needs to be all or none...you can't have some people in the office while others work from home.
Before the pandemic when I worked for a large previously monopolistic telecommunications company that shall remain nameless, I was hired right after their WFH policy ended. Which meant that I had to be in the office every day, but people hired before me could still work from home. Also, the company is spread across half the country (though they are desperately trying to regain all of their previous territories), so most of the people I worked with were in a different office. Which mean everything was done over the phone. Sure, we had a screen sharing application, but the actual voice communication was done over traditional phone calls. Makes sense for a large telecommunications company that already owns the infrastructure, right?
Except I was still required to be in the office. I had to spend 2 hours and $20 in gas every day to be in the office. I had to spend time at home organizing my lunches and preparing office clothes. I had to get up at 5:30am so that I could be sure to make it into the office and be logged in properly for the 8am daily meeting. I didn't get home until 7pm most days just because getting through city traffic at rush hour was a pain in the ass. And all so that I could be in the office to call into a meeting with people sitting at home.
All this effort being thrown at a slow transition just breeds resentment. If you're going to do it, rip the Band-Aid off and be ready for the fallout. Otherwise, just leave people work wherever they want. They are going to be on the phone or Zoom meeting anyways because of the few that still work from home, so what's the difference?
I do know why you are taking this comment personally since it wasn’t even directed at you but the other responses.
I assume you meant that you don't know why, but it's because you're not arguing in good faith. You dismiss anyone that disagrees as being young and inexperienced, you accused someone of being a bot simply because they wrote 3 small paragraphs in a 12 minute period, and now you've dismissed all experience if it's not a specific type of software development role.
As soon as its apparent that someone isn't just blindly accepting your arguments, you go straight to ad hominem. If you can't form an argument without resorting to insults, you've already lost...
I'm 45 years old with over 20 years of IT experience. I felt I've been very reasonable in my responses. Meanwhile, you've accused me of "making shit up", and dismissed someone with experience in machine learning with a background in algorithms and high performance computing as "not a software engineer".
You're not being controversial, you're just being a troll.
If Tim had tried to pick up some points and the result was the rest of the team stumbling, that would be one thing. Tim didn’t, he kept doing his own thing because his team lead is afraid of Tim.
Tim should be fired.
In either case, all that matters is whether Tim produced story points or that rest of the team produced enough story points, and that Tim should be fired for not doing that. I'm literally just using you're own words...
Spoken like a true beaurocrat who only cares about the individual KPIs. If all you look at is the individual, you'll miss the performance of the team.
So you fire Tim. Great! He was a slacker who didn't produce any story points. Now everyone is working individually. The other seniors don't have time to help juniors because they have their own stories to work on. Gotta keep those stats up...don't want to end up like Tim. The juniors start introducing bugs into the code accidentally. That's not good, their stats are going to go down. Except the one that picks up the bug fixes, his stats look great! He's sure to get a promotion doing nothing but fixing everyone else's mistakes. Then the other juniors start catching on, and start pickup up their own bug fixes that they introduced. Now the juniors are spending about half their time fixing bugs they created, while seniors start looking like slackers because they don't produce as many story points. Well something needs to be done about that, because you don't want to end up like Tim...
Any points system can be gamed. If all you look at are the numbers, you'll miss how the team really works.
You misread that entire thing. It's not that the team was bad, or that there was any significant turnover. Nor is Tim unable to transfer his knowledge, since that's not the point of what he does.
He's a sounding board. A sober voice asking the right questions when you've got your head down hyperfocused on a problem. Someone to talk to just to make sure you're on the right track, even though you were pretty sure anyways. The team would still perform without him, but he improves their quality and performance just by standing in for the duck and actually asking the right questions. It's a very subtle, very delicate job. Not everyone can do it. That's why they keep Tim on the team.
Yes, I do. But not everyone does, apparently. But most people know what Disney World is, and the scope of it.
That was the point I was making. It's not the size of Disney World. It's much smaller, hence the lower attendance. So it gives you some perspective...