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I love when people think going to the meeting is some kind of a special treatment/privilege.
When the manager said that "No more meetings for you" I would've said "thanks"
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No meetings with this current job. If there are any issues or concerns they're discussed on a as needed basis. Occasionally the boss might pull one of us in his office to discuss something. Usually nothing bad, he just wants more info on a certain situation so he knows what's going on, etc... sometimes we'll discuss certain things as a group if a process is not working or w/e. But no formal meetings.
When I was in IT, we had so many useless meetings. No joke one time a coworker and I are physically in the process of rack mounting a SAN. We're both holding it (was pretty big and heavy/awkward) and getting it aligned with the rails. IT manager walks in wanting us to drop everything we're doing for a meeting and he meant NOW, not in 5 minutes, but NOW. These meetings were always only him talking and it was always about how everything we do is wrong. It was basically a bash session. My coworker looks at him and says something along the lines "Can't you see we're in the middle of rack mounting the SAN you want setup by tomorrow? We still need to configure it and start the transfers, we don't have time for a meeting" (this, at like 1:00pm). IT manager got pissed and said we're now banned from the meetings. We rejoiced. We were only banned for like a month though but I ended up getting off easy since he no longer wanted both of us in there, just him because he was senior. I did not complain at all. :awe:
I had several 1+ hour suicide trainings this month. One was 2 hours...I was depressed the whole week. Also I'd love to see standardized signatures here. Some clowns have like 9 lines with 13 titles, 8 phone numbers, 3 emails. Ugh. Losers
We have a guy who lists every title/cert he has ever had.
As a joke, I took a bunch of microsoft MTA certs and put giant version of the logos in my emails to him for a month.
That's right I'm Microsoft MTA: Networking Fundamentals certified!
I just got out of a mandatory meeting (presentation) with the director showing us a slideshow with photos about how great we are... no joke. Waste of time.
Preach it, IndyColtsFan. Singalongs? *barf*
Do you think that was really management's idea, or some consultant they hired?
Yes, whenever possible I call into a meeting so that I can just put it on mute and do my actual work.Because of email and web collaboration MOST meetings these days are useless. In fact they can actually be a waste of time for many folks. They could be doing something better.
HR department are the most worthless. They also motivate the majority of our stupid wasted time meetings, all of which I skip because a co-worker of mine who keeps attending them will fill me in whenever anything important comes up (very rare).My favourite meetings are the "mandatory" ones HR does to make themselves feel important.
Whoa, you jumped right into the meeting on how to schedule meetings without having a pre-meeting to outline how the meeting would go? Live on the edge, you do.
HR department are the most worthless.
HR and Marketing are the most worthless departments in the history of Business.
Had a meeting with our Cruise Director ..... err Human Resources director to determine how her assistant would be able to randomly play the UM and MSU fight songs last Friday over the building PA system. Lasted about 30 seconds which is all the time it took for me to describe how damn annoying and unprofessional that would sound when I was on support calls with remote locations. Have also had meetings of similar sorts with the same person about providing her with a karaoke machine for one of her hair brained activities. That also abruptly ended when I informed her that a karaoke machine was not on my equipment list and I had no budget for it, but that she was more than welcome to add it to her departments budget if she wished. Seems like all of my most ridiculous meetings are always with HR for some reason.
3. Our company, in their great wisdom, decided that only Managers and higher should have the ability to print documents since anyone below that level can't be trusted to exercise their good judgment in determining if something is print-worthy or not.
Wow that sounds highly annoying. I notice it's really the guys who don't know anything too. I'm not proud of my security + certification, I just had to do it...
Kranky! How can you blithely suggest a pre-meeting to outline how the actual meeting would go without first setting up an exploratory committee to study the possible effectiveness of said pre-meeting and report back?
Sorry for the delay in responding, Perk, but I've been tied up working as part of a tiger team doing a feasibility study to evaluate the ROI of establishing an exploratory committee that would study the effectiveness of a pre-meeting to outline how a meeting might be structured to address how to effectively hold a meeting.
Our report to the Senior Executive Team is due in March, so we don't have a lot of time for chit-chat. If we can't complete the benefit matrix of the 8 possible consultants so we can choose one to facilitate the tiger team by Christmas, we're sunk.