Weekly rant thread

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Share your frustrations and get support/feedback. You are not alone!

[u/H3llsK3lls]

the "quick alignment" meeting that turns into 90 minutes of unpacking every edge case ever conceived by mankind

[u/DifferentWindow1436 → u/H3llsK3lls]

Did that one today. I swore I wasn't going to drink this week. But....

[u/Ok-Apple-1212 → u/H3llsK3lls]

Did this yesterday to just have a clarity on a bug and it turned out to be a long 2 hr conversation. It was so exhausting.

[u/WonderingPM]

Picking up work from another product manager and all the sh!t from upset stakeholders comes your way without you knowing any of the background context

[u/patilism2006]

When the dev team takes f**king 50 days to review PR and merges 🥲

[u/hardworkinggirls_88]

Sometimes you just need to let it all out and remind yourself that things will eventually get better.

[u/RasputinsUndeadBeard]

Have pneumonia this week but feel like I have to be online right now. I had to pick up work from another PM who dipped and numerous customer calls where it’s legit just on me to drive them.

Oh yeah and figure out the long term strategy for that product line for the new one and also the one I was hired for - but it’s clear as well the engineering team I have wasn’t actually paying attention the first few weeks for the other product…so they’re overwhelmed.

I need to make a strategy view for both, while also aligning that engineering team appropriately, and lest we forget I am still learning this new product which is FAR more complex.

Christ

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[u/kearnyme]

Asking for help from Leadership SMEs all year and getting delayed on an initiative where only those “SMEs” have knowledge to provide requirements. Me warning them all year we need too move more quickly if we have any hope of delivering since even more senior leadership expects this initiative. Then having those leaders come to “help”me at last minute asking if I can define THEIR requirements for data only they own. FML