im wendy, a pm in big tech, and im going to walk YOU through a day in my glamorous life
theres nothing like a commute to the office to get you warmed up for a day shepherding your team to build a product. i like to use my time to stretch my wings and take in the city and remember how much i believe in what i do
10am, time for standup! its nice to see the boys pretending to have made progress on what they promised theyd do yesterday
what? no, its not a costume day. 90% of SWEs are furries and we encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work!
after replying to some slack messages from 1am and updating all of my gantt charts ive got an impromptu 1:1 with the director of product
he looks chipper which is usually bad news. it turns out he had an idea for a new product direction last night after a long talk with GPT
our annual mandatory diversity training is after lunch and im in a session with my DS and his intern
i break the news to him as gently as possible that we're going to be re-goaling and whether he likes it or not the new KR is increasing the number of fonts on our landing page
at our call with sales the director neglects to show up to walk them through his new vision. sales is not happy
im not happy either but i cover for him. he'd better appreciate this (he won't)
after THAT'S over i grab an empty conference room to talk the team through the new plan requirements.
they're going to have to learn to code in esperanto. i didn't even know you could do that but i guess it is a universal language
im going to be up until 3am updating my gantt charts but you know what
fuck it
i decide to blow the rest of our morale budget on a mandatory tiki bar crawl
i turn in at 3:30am after tidying up my canopy bed
im going to be incredibly hungover tomorrow but the coffee will be hot and even if it werent id still be the only remotely responsible person in the entire org
as a PM its important to take pride in what you being to the table
if you're a former or current coworker reading this please know that i hold you in the highest regard
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