Joining the 9 AM stand-up just to say thanks and leave

Description

The meme has a two-part layout. At the top, in black sans-serif text, it says: "Waking up in morning to join that useless 9AM meeting just to say “thank you everyone” at the end". Below the caption, a blurry photo shows a small child in green pajama pants and a turtle-patterned T-shirt sitting stiffly on a beige couch, arms crossed and face blurred, radiating annoyance. The image visually captures the developer who rises early only to contribute a single polite farewell line on a video call. Technically it mocks meeting overload, low-value stand-ups, and how synchronous ceremonies in remote-first teams erode deep-work hours and productivity

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Our 9 AM stand-up has devolved into a Kubernetes liveness probe - each of us emits a quick “thanks everyone” heartbeat, Zoom marks the pod healthy, and we go back to doing actual work

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Our 9 AM stand-up has devolved into a Kubernetes liveness probe - each of us emits a quick “thanks everyone” heartbeat, Zoom marks the pod healthy, and we go back to doing actual work
Anonymous

After 20 years in tech, I've optimized my meeting contribution to a single atomic transaction at the end - maintaining just enough presence to avoid the "is everyone still here?" ping while my actual brain runs on a completely different thread solving yesterday's production incident
Anonymous

The modern software engineer's Schrödinger's meeting: simultaneously essential enough to require your attendance yet meaningless enough that your only contribution is a closing pleasantry. It's the distributed systems equivalent of a two-phase commit where phase one is 'join call' and phase two is 'say thanks' - maximum coordination overhead for minimal transactional value. At least with eventual consistency, something eventually happens
Anonymous

Our 9AM standup is basically two‑phase commit for humans - everyone sends a “thank you” ACK so leadership marks the transaction committed, despite zero state change
Anonymous

Like a daily cron job that pings everyone at 9AM to log 'no blockers' and self-destructs with 'thanks'
Anonymous

That 9AM standup is just a distributed barrier - 30 threads block, no state mutates, and “thanks everyone” is the release signal
@azizhakberdiev 5y

To give some advices and ideas which are simply denied and followed by noone
@fushello 5y

So true
@furqan 5y

I personally hate this so much and don't have shitty calls on Monday mornings in my company, and I even made sure that there are NO calls on Monday.
1. @mmddvg 5y
  
  doesn't your company need a backend developer ? 😑😂
  
  @furqan 5y
  
  Haha no..
2. @furqan 5y
  
  The reason is that I have been employee in such companies so I know how bad it feels
@furqan 5y

What's your tech stack?
1. @mmddvg 5y
  
  node(express-nest) rust(actix- tonic(a grpc server) apache kafka envoy :/