What keeps you awake at night?

Been playing a crap ton of poker online nowadays and between hands I could only wonder what do other PMs do here. Answer Answer Answer! 🚨

Currently i am facing too many tasks that my manager is assigning to me. because of this i am not able to focus on other life activities like gym, swimming, etc. i log in at 8 and work till 8 , also i get very exhausted after coming from office.!? What should i do.!? Also the performance review week is near i.e next month.!?

What do you think about a company asking you to be on-call when you've joined as a software engineer and not told beforehand that this would be expected of you. What is your experience about being on-call for Saas products and waking up in the middle of the night to look at alerts.

How do you guys approach to completing your tasks which are adjusted to be completed in 40 hours (or whatever amount of time is standard in your company) when 25% of the time goes in meetings and calls only?

Most of my peer colleagues are working late at night and on weekends as well. But I don't want to do it, now my manager (program manager, product manager, personal manager) is questioning my productivity and trying to compare me with the same level folks. How long I'm going to survive and what is most likely to happen PIP or Layoff? In this situation, what do you suggest I'm kind of fresher.

With manager :D

I have a couple recurring (weekly+biweekly) meetings on my calendar. Today I got a peek at a mid-leader's calendar at my company, this bloke had at least 5-7 recurring meetings every week, he/she forgot his/her screen was still visible to all. My stance is: sometimes I look forward to catching up other times it's just like ticking a checkbox of corporate things to do.

I'll go first. It is mostly operational and never strategic. Updates, status, retention etc. What about you?

What's that one thing your company/team does just because someone did this previously or some other team in the org did that? I'll go first. Monthly retros! Our old manager started the tradition of doing retros wherein you could anonymously point out what are the stuff that went well this month and what needs to be improved and stuff. We still do it and the points to be improved are turned into action items and in the next retro there is no check on those action items. We have like around 50 action items that got piled up and there are a few repeats too. 🥲