How do you deal with colleagues that argue 45 minutes on a call about a variable name? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This dude is extremely persistent about having irrelevant things his way, and when he doesn't get it, he acts as if it were a personal attack. Do you guys have any argument or method to deal with this kind of people?

I used to say "whatever" and let him have things his way, but as I got more experienced I started to listen more to his arguments and basically respond "this makes no sense" (not with those exact words, of course).

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

As a PO if I heard my Dev team wasting valuable time like this, I would put an immediate stop to this.

Not your problem, escalate to management for inefficiency.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

As a manager in software engineering: this! If I learned that one of my devs was wasting time like this, I'd want to know. Just make sure to stick to the facts.

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