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My lead: Here's an epic to remove a framework from all our projects. I want you to write every planning step in a document before you make any tickets or do any work.

Me: Okay cool. Before I do that, I'm just gonna finish the removal from the project we're 99% done with so we can remove that from the planning stages. I already did it locally with no issues so we know it's a 1 pointer. That takes us from two dependency graphs down to one which will help immensely in planning.

Lead: No. Don't make any tickets, this is a spike. Just put it in the document so management will know how long we expect the whole thing to take. And make sure you pull in this engineer from a completely different team who has his own tickets and doesn't even know I'm doing this. Make sure you include him on everything.

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    whenever I see the word "lead" I see Linkedin Automation tools that overuse the work leads :(
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    @popapopi my company recently restructured titles and changed “staff engineer” to “lead engineer.” So now lead can either mean “lead developer of this team,,” or staff dev. Will never understand why they went the homonym route.
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    @BrokeTheInteger Oh dear! I can't sleep tonight thinking about the leads now :(
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    Write the steps "before you write any tickets or do any work"

    Fishy from the start. Work is planning as well
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