My boss throws a tantrum if anybody is late to his weekly hour long meetings. He spends the first 30 minutes talking about football and asking us what our favorite dishes are.
Sounds like your boss is just lonely.
Most meetings, in my obviously limited experience, are held by people who don’t have anything else to do. And all the people who need to get shit done are pissed about having to sit through a meeting that could have been handled with a short email.
In project management it’s pretty common for meetings to be held because the people needing to get shit done aren’t and are ignoring emails.
Collective punishment is against the Geneva Convention.
So are chemical weapons, but police tear gas people all the time.
We haven’t really been doing great about adhering to that lately.
Some teams you have to schedule a meeting for them to work. Like, yeah, you could do this shit on your own time…but you aren’t
In project management it’s pretty common to just invite everyone to your meeting because you have NFI what’s going on or who is doing what and without meetings your toolbox is empty.
A good compromise for this is to have the project manager send out the agenda a day before the meeting so they can call out who needs to attend, and anyone that isn’t needed can skip it.
That’s only if people read the info in the actual email.
“-Could you just explain what this meeting is about”
“-Did you actually read the email summary”
“-yes but it’d be better if you explain it again”
No you didn’t…
what about the people that get shit dont and ignore emails
They’re not getting all of their shit done since responding to emails is part of the shit they’re supposed to be doing.
I could have the ring halfway to Mordor by now.
My favorite feature of Zoom is automatically ending the meeting after 40 minutes.
Don’t forget the 4 emails to plan the meeting. The meeting to discuss the plan for the meeting. The meeting to ensure everyone is ready for the meeting. Then the actual meeting. Now you have the follow up emails. The debrief meetings to discuss the meetings. The take away to follow up on from the meeting. The meeting to discuss the follow ups.
All while the whole thing could have been a 2 sentence message in teams. With a 3 word response.
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I tend to find them useful for taking nebulous, multi-faceted situations and turning them into a better understanding of what’s going on and then determining actual actions.
As in “different customers want us to do different things, some of which overlap, some of which take ages, some of which are quick, some of which take a load of work to even understand, and who have we got ready to tackle this stuff?”
The meeting takes a while and melts everyone’s brains by the end, but the result isn’t loads more long meetings.
Perhaps it only took 90 minutes, but it felt like days went by, just like many meetings.
Yeah. If you prepare a meeting, write it as a email. Then use that as base.
Yeah. If you prepare a meeting, write it as a email.
Then use that as base.Boss says no. 🙁
It’s a reminder that corporate owns you and will do whatever it wishes with your time
Wait, What is a rundown?
It’s when your manager drives behind you with an automatic rifle while you run for your life and makes you explain in excruciating detail every last bit of minutiae you are working on.
Or is that a gundown?
Ours just repeatedly tell us not to give patients the TV remote and list off all the incidents that have happened in the past month related to people giving the patients the remote (hiding it in their rooms, watching porn in the dayroom, setting locks on the TV, etc). I never have and never will but at this point I’m kind of surprised we haven’t had to get it back from endoscopy yet.
I’ve been thinking about starting a rumor that we did just for funsies. Just always wearing gloves while touching it. Acting cagey about it with the patients,“sorry I can’t tell you what happened to it” then whispering to my coworkers “well you know where we had to get it back from two weeks ago, right? …oh. Don’t worry about it. Just don’t touch it with your bare hands, OK?” And I’m bluntly honest about stuff no one is like 99.99% of the time so if I start this shit every one will be talking about it within the week.
Those same meetings, always:
“So does anyone have any suggestions, ideas or feedback?”
Fucking don’t, it’s a trap.
