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

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/cs_career_questions

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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] 4 points 8 months ago

Depends on if you're management or not.

Step 1 is to create a meeting agenda.

Step 2 is when he starts hijacking some shit, enforce the agenda. "It looks like our time on this is up. Moving on..."

Step 3: report time spent to management. If he continues to waste meeting time, discipline until you fire them.