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who hates them?

today i've pretty much done absolutely nothing at work. 4 hours of a supposed 8 hour day sitting through meetings. it drives me insane!

Doesn't bother me much. Getting paid to sit there and do nothing. Though, I could do that here in the office and be on the Internet, so....

I don't mind meetings that are necessary. I fucking hate pointless meetings that I don't really need to be at

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Originally posted by XaNaX I don't mind meetings that are necessary. I fucking hate pointless meetings that I don't really need to be at

well i have this new standing meeting i have to attend once or twice a week that is absolutely pointless. we schedule an hour and it goes to two. i can't stand it because there is really no point at all. no damn agenda and i am just supposed to guess what its about because the person calling the meeting only cares about himself.

i say two or three words every 15min to keep myself awake but that's it. i drink water and run to the restroom a lot too because if i didn't i fall asleep. in fact i fell asleep last week and was totally caught...there were 4 of us in the room

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Originally posted by chimera66 well i have this new standing meeting i have to attend once or twice a week that is absolutely pointless. we schedule an hour and it goes to two. i can't stand it because there is really no point at all. no damn agenda and i am just supposed to guess what its about because the person calling the meeting only cares about himself.

I've seen people fall asleep in meeting and its awfully hard for me not to burst out laughing. I hate going to meetings where absolutely nothing gets done or action items are tabled for another meeting.

Or when someone takes over their meeting and brings up their own issues which is not relevant to topic/purpose of meeting.

It really depends on the meeting. Hardly a day goes by where I don't have at least one meeting. I find that meeting which are very focused and achieve results are quite rewarding; however, meetings that are purely focused on disseminating information tend to suck.

I fucking love meetings. Especially pointless ones!!!!



So yeah, I have been to way to many pointless meetings and I despise them. Never understand why people call them.

the purpose of my least favorite meeting is for this really lazy guy in my dept to tell us we need to be doing his job...whatever that happens to be at the time. thankfully i don't report to him but i'm required to go to his meetings. since my actual boss is also his boss i don't feel like he can really tell me what to do so i tend to tune him out.

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel I fucking love meetings. Especially pointless ones!!!! So yeah, I have been to way to many pointless meetings and I despise them. Never understand why people call them.

some like to call these boring meetings during lunch so we can have some uber expensive lunch brought in...i'm so sick of those damn lunches

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel So yeah, I have been to way to many pointless meetings and I despise them. Never understand why people call them.

In my experience I find that it makes them feel important...

Mondays used to be a bitch for me, first I had an 8AM meeting with the rest of my team to discuss progress and issues during the past week (there were 4 of us that drove a SAP implementation in our company), then a conference call with colleagues all around Central America (9 countries were implementing SAP at the same time) for the same thing which was supposed to be 1 hour long but would usually go on for two. So fucking pointless as it ended up being about "look at me, I am so awesome!".

So, I get out of those two at around 11AM, and I'm already bored out of my skull and start checking and answering emails. By the time I'm done with that it was already lunch time. When I got back from lunch there was another meeting @ 2PM with the people we had in charge (super-users, who reported to the 4 of us) which lasted for another 2 hours or even more sometimes. Before I knew it, it was already 5PM and time to go home. One perfectly good day of work wasted on meetings.

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Originally posted by chimera66 some like to call these boring meetings during lunch so we can have some uber expensive lunch brought in...i'm so sick of those damn lunches

Get the lunch and go back to your desk. Fuck the meeting.

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Originally posted by woscar99 In my experience I find that it makes them feel important...

lol I know. So fucking stupid though.

free lunch does make stupid meetings somewhat better.

too bad the cafeteria at my building blows and I would only trust their sandwiches.

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Originally posted by digitalbreach free lunch does make stupid meetings somewhat better. too bad the cafeteria at my building blows and I would only trust their sandwiches.

The BEST cafeteria food I have ever had was when I worked for First American. They have steak, pizza, spaghetti, cheese cake, etc in their cafeteria!

we order from somewhere locally, no kitchen here. last year at about this time since my dept was small i got invited to the nice steak lunches but no longer since we've grown . either way meetings suck all type of energy i could have possibly had

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel The BEST cafeteria food I have ever had was when I worked for First American. They have steak, pizza, spaghetti, cheese cake, etc in their cafeteria!

One of my fave was for a oil and gas company they had different sections with varying menu each day
Mexican
Pizza/Pastas
Salads
BBQ
Deli

I wonder what Google's cafeteria would be like?

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Originally posted by digitalbreach One of my fave was for a oil and gas company they had different sections with varying menu each day Mexican Pizza/Pastas Salads BBQ Deli I wonder what Google's cafeteria would be like?

Yeah that is exactly how it was when I was at First American. They rotate between a lot of different things. Such a damn good quality cafeteria. And the meal was usually $5!!!!!!

Oh and Google has some nice stuff I have heard in their cafeteria. But don't count on child care. They just raised the price to make in no longer affordable.

all depends on who's running them.

yeah, fucking waste of time more often than not. i hate being forced to pay attention in the unlikely event somebody asks me a question.

working sucks the wang.

I currently work a blue collar job to help me live while I am going to college for computer science.

I always see pessimism and Dilbert-isms as far as meetings are concerned. Looks to me like they are going to be little more than breaks from doing something productive and otherwise enlightening.

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Originally posted by chimera66 some like to call these boring meetings during lunch so we can have some uber expensive lunch brought in...i'm so sick of those damn lunches

I know exactly how you feel since it tends to be the same caterer over and over and over

sometimes it's quite good fun to sit there, do nothing and realise that this client is paying $200 an hour for your time.

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