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Welcome to another round of Boredroom

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or Mirroboard. Today we talk retrospectives

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with agile coach Maria. Let's go.

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First question. You've spent two hours

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in a team retro, but the

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only input you've heard is Dave's.

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Boredroom or Mirroboard? Boredroom. In

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Mirro, Dave can't hog the space because

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everyone can add thoughts anonymously, online at

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the same time. Correct. Next.

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You need the team to act on feedback

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fast, so you turn all those retro notes

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into Jira tasks instantly. Mirro all the

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way. And I can assign those tasks

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to teammates. You're nailing this.

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Now, you see hundreds of sticky notes

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from the retro. A real mess. But

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you organize them into five themes in

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just seconds. Mirro, I basically get

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back an entire hour when I use

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its AI tools for clustering. And

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she's done it. Join over 60 million

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people running actually enjoyable and

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actionable retros in Mirro. Get

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your first three boards free

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at mirro.com. That's m-i-r-o.com. Plug

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those headphones in. It's

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time for Ireland's only interactive

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podcast. The multi-award winning Opinions

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Matter with Adrian and Jeremy.

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You're very welcome to this latest Opinions

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Matter podcast with Adrian and Jeremy recorded

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live at our studio at the White

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Sands Hotel in Port Marnock in North

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County Dublin. If you are in the

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Port Marnock area, why not pop along

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In fact, it has everything going for

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White Sands Hotel, may we recommend it? So

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what do we want to talk about

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on this latest Opinions Matter podcast? Have

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a listen to this from a guy called Gareth, and

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I want to get your reaction to this. Adrian

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and Jeremy, I love your podcast and I

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don't think you've covered the this topic.

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It's about people using mental health to

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get time off work. Where

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I work, an IT company, and I

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won't name it, there are two staff

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out and he writes in inverted commas

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sick over their mental

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health. This is about the

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fourth time this year that one particular

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girl has been off. She

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has a bad week and says she's feeling

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down and gets time off, yet

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she's on Instagram out walking her dogs and going for

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coffee with her mates. My point

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is we all have bad weeks when we're

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not feeling up to it, but

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we still go in. But I

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think there's a lot of people

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faking or exaggerating their mental health

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issues to get extra time off

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work because the company actually pays

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them sick leave. They are taking

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the piss. And that's

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from a guy called Garrett. So basically what

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he's arguing is he believes

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that a lot of people are using

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mental health as an

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excuse, literally, to

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get time off work to pull

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a sickie basically. You

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see the problem with mental health is, and we all

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have to be aware that mental health does exist obviously

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and you need to look after mental health, but

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the issue of mental health is it's an invisible

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thing. So, you know, back

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in the day when you used to pull sickies

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and work and say you had a sore throat,

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you had to blag that. You had to like,

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oh, I've got a sore throat. Or,

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you know, if you had a broken arm, you

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had to show evidence that you had a broken

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arm. Whereas with mental health, there's no evidence needed.

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So it is easier to actually

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to blag it, isn't it? To say,

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possibly, but this, this notion that

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he obviously believes that this particular

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woman who she's

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had a bad week and she's feeling down

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and she's off for the fourth time this

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year, he obviously believes she doesn't suffer with

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her mental health, which is a bit

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nasty of him to because he can't

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see it, he automatically assumes