#day13 lockdown southafrica husband

[elrine]

What I feel my husband does all day

My husband is a Scrum Master, and for those of you who are not familiar with the term, no he does not teach rugby players how to scrum.

He is in IT. Which means, he teaches other people, how to work together, to optimise and work efficiently and effectively. How to rely on each other and to deliver maximum value. So yes, he teaches developers how to scrum. (disclaimer: this is my understanding of what he does)

His job requires a lot of human interaction, a lot of counselling, facilitating and for him to demonstrate the agile principals by example. If you know my husband, he wouldn’t easily describe himself as a people person. In fact, he often prefers computers over people. That said, from what I could gather at some of his work events, he seems to be this incredibly social leader. He is confident, talks to people, even small talk. He is respected and his teams work amazingly well.

Considering they’re in IT, lockdown doesn’t really affect their company that much, but it has dramatically changed the primary function of his role. Social interaction.

He enters, his office in the morning for a meeting and leaves it in the afternoons if I’m lucky at 18.00. With like nonstop meetings in between. The whole day, I just hear him talk. I sometimes take him coffee and snacks during the meetings, just because he doesn’t seem to have time to make coffee himself anymore (which he did have time for at work…. suspicious I think).

Having to be social and interacting over the internet requires a lot of effort and meetings and planning, so I get it.

I have a theory though; my husband loves watching boat videos on YouTube and he loves playing games (currently he is into Bannerlord).

I think his first and last meetings of the day are real, and I suspect maybe one or two in between. I think the rest of the time, however, he just talks to the walls and says random IT and software stuff, to make it sound like he is in meetings. He always has his headphones on. I suspect he is watching videos and playing games in the background. He gets to work and have fun and get served with tee and coffee and snacks…. Well played husband, well played 😊

 *He is actually working relentlessly hard to try and keep his teams motivated and stay in contact with people. He really is in meetings. If I was him, I might have taken some liberties, if tea and coffee and snacks were brought to me the whole time, but that’s just me.