Another name for Parkinson's Law of Triviality. It's when an individual or group fixates on discussing trivial issues or ones way outside their area of expertise because the pressing issues they actually need to resolve are too hard for them to constructively engage with.
You know you're the victim of bike shedding when a colleague wants to call a meeting to discuss his face-palmingly idiotic suggestions for your project while deliberately ignoring critical problems of their own that they don't know how to fix or get started with.
You know you're the victim of bike shedding when a colleague wants to call a meeting to discuss his face-palmingly idiotic suggestions for your project while deliberately ignoring critical problems of their own that they don't know how to fix or get started with.
Developer: The CEO wants to be involved in the website redesign
Marketing: And the COO too. Pure bike shedding.
Marketing: And the COO too. Pure bike shedding.
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An acknowledgement of something bad or unfortunate.
Near Synonyms: this sucks, sucks
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An acknowledgement of something bad or unfortunate.
Near Synonyms: this sucks, sucks
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Dan: I have to drive five hours to a job interview tomorrow.
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