Weekly status reports. BITCH, I'M TOO BUSY WORKING TO TELL YOU WHAT I DID THIS WEEK.

Mine are also almost always the same:
"fixed broken thing"
"worked on reports for broken thing"
"helped new teammates fix broken thing"
ISSUES REQUIRING ATTENTION:
"my connection is still shit, like i warned would happen before I moved"
"need workstation already connected to network to reduce connection problems"

These don't help the people who need to be micromanaged, and they just piss off those of us who don't.

'Look at Jira'

Ohhhuhuuh

@alexbrooklyn My bosses could easily look at our shared calendar where we post all our AARs and notes from Incidents my team resolves to tell what I did, when I did it, and how long it took. I hate repeating myself, so the status reports are extra annoying for that.

Try managing then tell me how useless reports are.

@skqr I have. For a while. I know how to manage my time and pull my employees tasks so I don't have to disturb them.

Sales: you can sort by employee
Current job: sort the spreadsheet we use, on top of the calendar and AARs, by employee and date.

I would have less issue with doing status reports if upper management didn't also want us to put the same information in 3 spreadsheets, 2 Locations on SharePoint, emails, text threads, daily reports, and other weekly reports.

But since all these are available, the status reports are dumb.