u/Pentastat

I joined ASML in March in a software/IT role in Wilton. I've worked at 4-5 companies before, including two large corps similar to ASML size (one is a major ASML customer). I am a green badge, if that matters.

My experience has been okay so far but I'm kinda struggling with one thing... I don't have any real management chain. Often, this is nice, can't get micromanaged if you don't even get managed. But it's leading to a lot of confusion, miscommunication, lack of structure as well.

I'm assigned to a project. The project is fairly large and involves folks from a few departments - manufacturing, D&E, IT, CRE. Most of the folks seem to have other responsibilities outside of this specific project, but there's 5-6 of us on a team which only support it.

Our project has a product owner, a scrum master, a project manager, an architect (or two?). All of these people seem to give direction to my team, but none of them actually *manage* us. Our manager in Outlook is some guy in SD who none of us have ever interacted with and has no involvement in our project (and he has like 50 reportees).

Is this typical at ASML? Our scrum master, for example, refers to himself as a manager, but he has not reportees and does not ever make decisions on priority or negotiations with stakeholders. He just note takes in meetings. I'm so confused.

In professional play, there is currently no rule regarding balls hitting the net before going over on a serve. This often results in "trickle aces" or other weird paths for the ball, and to many, feels like a waste of a point because it's not typically any player's intention.

In beach volleyball pre-2001 rules change (when the court used to be larger), ball hitting net on serve was automatic loss of point. Let serves became legal along with the smaller court and rally scoring change.

One proposal I've heard is Option 5 on the Sandcast podcast a couple years ago, but I'm curious what others think. I know many would say no change, but personally I hate getting trickle aced and would make it illegal if I could.

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Suppose you are partnering up with a clone of yourself. If you are too short to block, your clone can add a few inches/cm to their height so they can block, but they aren't more talented/skilled than you at blocking or anything else (passing, hitting, etc)

Given some time to train and build chemistry with your clone, how are you and your clone doing against pros* in a serious, competitive match? What's the score and how does the match go? The pro team are aware of your skill level and will adjust their strategy to take advantage of it.

*Pros meaning second tier or above - in FIVB terms, this would be teams consistently playing challenger events. In AVP, it would be lower end of consistent main draw teams.