Meetings
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Tharpa's Corporate Observation #417: In any meeting, a maximum of 5 people are not having their time wasted.
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Because of [spoiler]email[/spoiler] I guess.
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Meetings are where work goes to die.
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No@Eldelshell said:
Because of [spoiler]email[/spoiler] I guess.
No, it's because a maximum of five people have the status and knowledge to contribute productively. The majority of the information is relevant to the immediate work of no more than 5 people.
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Not yet.
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Meetings are where I go to die. No one would notice until after the meeting if I did.
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I rarely am in a meeting with > 5 people.
Though this morning's costume contest was fun :)
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Pictures or it didn't happen
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I won't show my coworkers for obvious reasons, but have a selfie:
And a full-on pic:
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Have an extra ++ for including the promotional poster in the background
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I won't show my coworkers for obvious reasons
...they've already seen the costume?
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I remember my old manager (who was a top bloke) having this meeting for a project that would never happen. He was doing all these estimates and I was sitting there thinking "I am going to tell you I am leaving the company once this finishes" ...
Worst meeting ever.
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If there's donuts, I don't mind.
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There's rarely donuts. Or any point to them.
If they had points, they would be crullers.
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There's rarely donuts.
Sometimes there are pastries and fruit and stuff for early morning meetings — it's not enough to compensate for having to get up earlier than usual, but it's something. And there are usually sandwiches or pizza for lunchtime meetings; I don't mind those as much, because I'm here anyway — although I prefer lunchtime meetings that I'm not required to attend and for which the organizer ordered more food than needed for the number of people that actually showed up.
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More meeting stories:
We once had this 40-ish cat lady project manager, she wasn't a bad looking lady but she was very "difficult". She liked me because I was "mucho fuerte" and took quite a shine to me. I picked up enough Spanish to know when people were talking about me by then and I could understand some conversations.
This lady after a skype call forgot to disconnect and lets just say I didn't need to be fluent in Spanish when she was talking about what she wished would happen between me and her during the weekend.
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Dear Penthouse Magazine...
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It happened, and tbh I thought I would get some love ... It didn't happen.
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People in weird timezones like Central and Mountain should not be allowed to schedule meetings. They without fail stomp all over "too early", "too late" or "lunch".
My entire management heirarchy is in those timezones.
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People in weird timezones like Central and Mountain should not be allowed to schedule meetings. They without fail stomp all over "too early", "too late" or "lunch".
My entire management heirarchy is in those timezones.
Hey, wait a minute here! There are some very important things that go on in those timezones!
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They without fail stomp all over "too early", "too late" or "lunch".
In fact. I got all 3 today.
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sad.
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I'm setting the boardroom presentation computer's wallpaper to this as soon as everybody goes home...
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I didn't end up crying a river.