When I switched jobs about 18 months ago, I went from a meeting-light culture to a meeting-heavy culture. While I don’t regret my switch (I was being aged out after 20 years), I do miss the times when I had a week or more between meetings.
I am the introvert who actively listens and judges who stays on-topic and who does not. So the constant meetings pretty much drive me mad, especially the ones with no actual agenda. Oh, you scheduled a two-hour agenda-less meeting for Friday afternoon? (This actually happened last week.) See you in hell.
What about your work environment drives you crazy?
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i turned down the team lead position coz it came with daily (sometimes multiple) meetings
fuck off with that shit…im here to get a job done…not talk about getting a job done
(also i will fall asleep if you stick me in a meeting at 8 am)
Today I got asked why I wasn’t in a meeting that started 15 minutes before they asked me.
I said oh wow sorry not on my calendar.
Then got the invite sent to me.
Goddamn FIVE HOUR LONG meeting.
I politely replied I would be unable to attend. There’s no need for this. A 5 hour meeting is 4 hours of wasted time. Even if you have that much material to cover, people can only process so much.
5 hours?
i dunno what you do…but no company is that interesting
the suits do love to talk tho….
i swear if it wasnt for meetings and making pretty graphs most of management would be out of work
Oh friend I 100% agree with you.
I have a few teams I work with that will set up meetings to plan other meetings. And I’m like why wasn’t this an email?????
Shut Your Mouth
Yeah, people who have meetings to help them work things out are the worst. That’s what the phone is for.
I probably shouldn’t be talking about my work
i thought your job was surfing
The guys I work with all live on…
i can come work with you 😀
then all your coworkers would still live on dumbass ave
but one of them has a funny accent…and wooden shoes to throw at naysayers
(edit) oh also playlisted that one
I once signed up for this personality profile seminar thing at work. To no one’s surprise, my chattiness and sociability score was through the roof. I asked the moderator, “I have reached middle management nirvana where I do nothing but go to meetings. Why am I invited to them all?” “Because you’re funny and most meetings are horrible and boring so you must make them a little tolerable.”
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. And it is very rare that I quote Karl Marx.
most meetings are horrible and boring
i think statistically almost none of them are productive
sooo..why do you need so many of them?