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| chimera66 |
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! |
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| david.michael |
| 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.... |
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| XaNaX |
| I don't mind meetings that are necessary. I ing hate pointless meetings that I don't really need to be at |
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| chimera66 |
| quote: | Originally posted by XaNaX
I don't mind meetings that are necessary. I ing 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 :confused: :( |
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| digitalbreach |
| quote: | 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.
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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. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| 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. |
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| gehzumteufel |
I ing love meetings. Especially pointless ones!!!!:gsmile:
So yeah, I have been to way to many pointless meetings and I despise them. Never understand why people call them. |
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| chimera66 |
| 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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| chimera66 |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
I ing love meetings. Especially pointless ones!!!!:gsmile:
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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| woscar99 |
| quote: | 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...:o
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 ing 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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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | 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. the meeting.
| quote: | Originally posted by woscar99
In my experience I find that it makes them feel important...:o |
lol I know. So ing stupid though. |
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| digitalbreach |
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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