Boss complains that there are too many people in the morning coffee run at small company
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Upper management recently brought up that there are too many people going on the morning coffee run at a nearby cafe at once, and that it "disrupts the work routines" of other people. The group is usually 3-5 people, and today it was 6-7 that all went simultaneously after the morning scrum. This usually takes no longer than 10-15 mins.
While I understand that in our small company (~20 people) that is a noticeable absence, it really rubs me the wrong way. Upper management always wants to keep a tight grip on everything, and there isn't a lot of trust. So it felt like a deliberate attempt to limit coworker's interactions with one another outside the office.
Does my boss have a reasonable concern here? Am I just biased?
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Upper management recently brought up that there are too many people going on the morning coffee run at a nearby cafe at once, and that it "disrupts the work routines" of other people. The group is usually 3-5 people, and today it was 6-7 that all went simultaneously after the morning scrum. This usually takes no longer than 10-15 mins.
While I understand that in our small company (~20 people) that is a noticeable absence, it really rubs me the wrong way. Upper management always wants to keep a tight grip on everything, and there isn't a lot of trust. So it felt like a deliberate attempt to limit coworker's interactions with one another outside the office.
Does my boss have a reasonable concern here? Am I just biased?
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
– Erik
5 mins ago
The message was quite vague, claiming it was an issue brought up by some other unspecified team members. Perhaps it was because the group consisted of people from multiple different teams?
– Arthur
1 min ago
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Upper management recently brought up that there are too many people going on the morning coffee run at a nearby cafe at once, and that it "disrupts the work routines" of other people. The group is usually 3-5 people, and today it was 6-7 that all went simultaneously after the morning scrum. This usually takes no longer than 10-15 mins.
While I understand that in our small company (~20 people) that is a noticeable absence, it really rubs me the wrong way. Upper management always wants to keep a tight grip on everything, and there isn't a lot of trust. So it felt like a deliberate attempt to limit coworker's interactions with one another outside the office.
Does my boss have a reasonable concern here? Am I just biased?
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Upper management recently brought up that there are too many people going on the morning coffee run at a nearby cafe at once, and that it "disrupts the work routines" of other people. The group is usually 3-5 people, and today it was 6-7 that all went simultaneously after the morning scrum. This usually takes no longer than 10-15 mins.
While I understand that in our small company (~20 people) that is a noticeable absence, it really rubs me the wrong way. Upper management always wants to keep a tight grip on everything, and there isn't a lot of trust. So it felt like a deliberate attempt to limit coworker's interactions with one another outside the office.
Does my boss have a reasonable concern here? Am I just biased?
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
– Erik
5 mins ago
The message was quite vague, claiming it was an issue brought up by some other unspecified team members. Perhaps it was because the group consisted of people from multiple different teams?
– Arthur
1 min ago
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
– Erik
5 mins ago
The message was quite vague, claiming it was an issue brought up by some other unspecified team members. Perhaps it was because the group consisted of people from multiple different teams?
– Arthur
1 min ago
Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
– Erik
5 mins ago
Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
– Erik
5 mins ago
The message was quite vague, claiming it was an issue brought up by some other unspecified team members. Perhaps it was because the group consisted of people from multiple different teams?
– Arthur
1 min ago
The message was quite vague, claiming it was an issue brought up by some other unspecified team members. Perhaps it was because the group consisted of people from multiple different teams?
– Arthur
1 min ago
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Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like
- missing delivery timeline
- a drop in quality of work
- objection / report about being blocked on someone else's availability (at any time)
which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice. Sometimes, people state the easiest reasons (also "canned" response), just for the sake of it. You may really need to know what the real objection is.
answered 4 mins ago
Sourav GhoshSourav Ghosh
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Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like
- missing delivery timeline
- a drop in quality of work
- objection / report about being blocked on someone else's availability (at any time)
which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice. Sometimes, people state the easiest reasons (also "canned" response), just for the sake of it. You may really need to know what the real objection is.
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Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like
- missing delivery timeline
- a drop in quality of work
- objection / report about being blocked on someone else's availability (at any time)
which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice. Sometimes, people state the easiest reasons (also "canned" response), just for the sake of it. You may really need to know what the real objection is.
answered 4 mins ago
Sourav GhoshSourav Ghosh
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Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like
- missing delivery timeline
- a drop in quality of work
- objection / report about being blocked on someone else's availability (at any time)
which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice. Sometimes, people state the easiest reasons (also "canned" response), just for the sake of it. You may really need to know what the real objection is.
answered 4 mins ago
Sourav GhoshSourav Ghosh
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Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like
- missing delivery timeline
- a drop in quality of work
- objection / report about being blocked on someone else's availability (at any time)
which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice. Sometimes, people state the easiest reasons (also "canned" response), just for the sake of it. You may really need to know what the real objection is.
answered 4 mins ago
Sourav GhoshSourav Ghosh
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
– Erik
5 mins ago
The message was quite vague, claiming it was an issue brought up by some other unspecified team members. Perhaps it was because the group consisted of people from multiple different teams?
– Arthur
1 min ago