We used post-it notes on a wall at a previous workplace to aid a truly useless manager. It didn’t make him a better manager, but it did have upsides. It felt great to crunch completed tasks up into little balls and throw them in the recycling when we did standups. The extra visibility in the room was really helpful too, other colleagues would ask us about our work or when we might be free for their whims, and we could just point at the wall and say “after all that shit is done?”. Usually they would see the mountain in the to-do columns and say “oh.” and then walk off dejectedly. It stopped a lot of bullshit requests with the mere presence of colourful papers fluttering in the aircon, including incompetent managerial scope creep.
The fridge would work well for this with some little magnets and/or a whiteboard marker, like people do with reward charts for kids.
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