Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
How 'bout this guideline? Don't SCHEDULE 9AM meetings. There's nothing in any business that needs to be discussed that fvcking early in the morning.
The only exception for early-morning meetings is event staff meetings directly before the opening of an event.
If you are in a large corporation there is a chance you could have several meetings in a day at all sorts of random hours. If you are part of a global company and have to meet with people in Europe/Japan/etc. via conference call or video conferencing then expect meetings to happen pretty much any time.
Heh. One of my major's requirements is a real world collaborative IT project - sometimes with other schools, sometimes producing real products for businesses, etc.
Anyway, this past semester, that class was doing a collaboration with some company to produce some online banking software. However, Penn State was in charge of the design and MSU (in
India) was responsible for the code. I have never seen a group of students get so frustrated. The way the video conference schedule worked out, they had a video conference damn near daily at 11AM, a local general meeting at 6PM 3 times a week, a local team meeting at least once a day, and another video conference damn near daily at 11PM - IN ADDITION TO NORMAL CLASSES. In the end, that's room for about 2 hours of design work a day. Most of them ended up dropping all their normal courses to make room for this. And the Indians were complaining about how slow the design teams were lagging behind - because they were coding and testing ALL DAY between the conferences on one side, and sleeping on the other. They had no normal coursework, nor did any of them have outside jobs, nor did any of them have social lives.
So yeah, I can see how working internationally would suck hard.