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Slack DM, three minutes after I pick up an issue.
"You have an issue in the sprint without any story points. Why doesn't it have any story points? All sprint issues must be pointed."
Well fuck, Janice, I don't know. All I've done so far is click "Assign to me". There's no evaluation yet! I have no idea what the root cause is or how long it will take to fix. Let me cook goddammit.
As someone who works as a software engineer for a smaller company without any of that noise, that sounds like complete hell. I have no clue how devs are getting anything useful done while having to context switch constantly during the day for asinine meetings and corporate progress tracking bullshit.