Hey, at least he had the right idea. He saw that the delay was due to a lack of skilled workers and tried to fix that problem instead of just talking more about the project. That's more awareness than most PMs have in my experience.

"Are you don't yet?

Yes, I am don't work here anymore, good bye.

That concept is lost on so many people and I don't understand why. One of the last teams I was on had two weekly meetings. One was 9:00 AM Monday morning and the other was 4:00 PM on Fridays. They were both running through all of our projects and always seemed surprised that the Monday update was the same as the previous Friday update.

You get focus time?

They need to give you some time to answer emails from management 🙄

"Focus time" is the name of the meeting.

Because even if you’re not working, you’ll probably think about problems overnight

You block it out and call it something else

Well yea, plenty happens between 1700 and 0900. That is why the 15 min standup takes 30 min.

They need to have full calendars so that they look productive. Those meetings are for them, not for you. You still have to attend tho.

I had a job that had > 1hr standups for our two man project because we met with QA, BA, and management and they wanted everything changed every day so we had to explain why we couldn't do anything with constantly changing requirements every morning.

Don't worry mate, it is a joke. But judging by the other comments it is closer to reality than a joke for some.