Incompetent Tech Company Insists on Holding 3-Hour Meeting After Software Deployment, Making Dev Unavailable to Fix Bugs

In a classic case of 'F around and find out', redditor u/Sinaneos decided to let their incompetent team have their way after they insisted on holding a 3-hour meeting on a Friday instead of pushing it to Monday so that OP could address inevitable post-software deployment issues. Because OP was stuck in the pointless meeting, they weren't able to monitor or fix anything. The company ended up upsetting clients and wasting tens of thousands of dollars because they were determined to have a meeting at the worst possible time. You call yourself a tech company? Maybe listen to your software developer. Keep scrolling for the whole story.

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  • “Want me to stop postponing meetings? Ok” Posted by u/Sinaneos

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    Font - So I work in a tech company, usually we have a software deployment every other Thursday. The team usually has a long meeting on Friday (2-3 hours) after deployment. However, usually we have some minor issues after deployment and I have to do a lot of monitoring and fixing, so I usually ask the team to push the meeting to Monday so we can stabilise the system first.
    Via u/Sinaneos
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    Font - A few weeks ago in the meeting, they pointed out how I'm always postponing the meeting, and we never have it in its set date which is Friday. I mentioned that usually the system isn't stable on Friday and I have to fix it. But they all agreed that we must stick to the schedule. I was like "okay".
    Via u/Sinaneos
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    Font - After 2 weeks, I attended the meeting on its scheduled time on Friday. It went on for like 3 hours. When we came out, there were hundreds of emails and tickets from the client, the servers were down for hours right at peak usage time. Our clients were PISSED and had lost tens of thousands of dollars during that time.
    Via u/Sinaneos
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    Font - The thing is, it was already the end of my workday, so my boss had to pay me a hefty amount for working on weekends, and twice the days in leave as a replacement. ↑ Share 7794 396
    Via u/Sinaneos

  • The comment section

    Software development nerds hopped into the comment section to roast OP's inefficient company. 

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    Font - Reddit AdminAreMorons 4d So why wasn't it ever suggested to permanently move the meeting to a Monday after everything has been tested, implemented, and found? ↑ ... 1.1k

    "Because Friday is kind of a chill day, after deployment. So they wanna have the meeting then, and utilize Monday's hours for more work" —OP.

    "Obviously not as chill as they thought if they were getting that many tickets coming in. I think they need to reassess those meetings. Just a humble opinion of one looking from the outside. Unless you want the killer OT and PTO added to your check, then by all means go with it." —u/RedditAdminAreMorons

    Via u/RedditAdminAreMorons
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    Font - unkiepunkie 4d This is why deployments should happen at the beginning of the week... ↑ G 2.3k

    "Or the meeting should be on a Monday when any issues have been spotted\tracked\worked on." —u/Moneia

    "This. What psychopath scheduled a three hour meeting every Friday?" —u/tarlton

    Via u/unkiepunkie
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    Font - FunnySheep 4d This is a good story, but it sounds to me your team is doing IT in an absolute terrible manner. That level of manual involvement is beyond absurd, there are huge problems. 216

    "We're still working on our processes. There are tests and all, but we still have cases where someone pushes something and it crashes the servers due to conflict with production data." —OP

    Via u/FunnySheep
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    Font - manwoodlover 4d F around and find out when your subject matter expert isn't listened to. ... ↑₁ G 131
    Via u/manwoodlover

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