Stupid meetings

[ray1970]

Why would you have long, boring meetings first thing on a Monday morning?

Looks like a mosh pit in here with all the heads bobbing up and down.

That is all.

[StagLefty]

Bob along-it's easier. I don't miss that crap at all. [Coffee]

[spleify]

Thats how my company is. We have meetings to discuss when we will be having our next meeting.....

[kawiracer14]

I love the meetings that result in the need to have a meeting!

Happy to be consulting at a place small enough to have 30 minute meetings once a week and that's enough.

[Buff]

As much as I hate to I have an Engineering/Sales meeting every Monday at @8am, it's only to review what has come in the previous week and needs to done for the upcoming week. It takes about 35-45, depending on what's going on / needs to be done.
We have more meetings than we should, most just end up being waste of time/resources and I've found them to be used as a way manage task by committee, translation; away to avoid accountability. It’s been my experience when a meeting is used to manage task by committee the person calling the meeting is either; over their head (not qualified for their position), aren’t prepared to take on/commit to the task (lazy) or don’t have the testicular fortitude to make a decision (no balls).

[TFOGGER]

If there is any single word in the English language that defines why mankind has never reached its full potential, that word would be: Meetings.

[Tim K]

We would return to a manufacturing super-power if someone just threw out all the chairs in every conference room in America. Meetings would last 15 minutes and accomplish all the same stuff if everyone had to stand the whole time.

[blacklabel]

I'm lucky in that 90% of the meetings I'm in are teleconferences so I can tune out and still be productive.

[merl]

You know things are bad when you schedule "meetings" in your calender that dont exist so you have some time to work. Sadly you have to keep switching them around so people dont know which ones are real and which ones are work.

[ray1970]

Just got out of our meeting. It started at 7:30. Damn near noon now.

[Wulf202]

I meet every day with my staff. 5 minutes of assigning tasks. 10 minutes to bitch. After that I walk away.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Thats how my company is. We have meetings to discuss when we will be having our next meeting.....

Been there.


I'm lucky in that 90% of the meetings I'm in are teleconferences so I can tune out and still be productive.

I get a kick out of that, and also when you mention someone's name...they don't answer for a sec (unmuting phone) and then jump in with something like, "I'm sorry you were breaking up, can you repeat that?" because they were obviously just listening for their name.

But I like it even better when folks just admit, "I'm sorry...I wasn't even listening. Please repeat that." That kills me. [ROFL1] And I respect it. :D

[MrPrena]

Anything worse than a meeting is conference and presentation.

[Brian]

I'm on a meeting conf. call right now. [Bang]

[Mtn.man]

Our meetings happen After work over a beer where I can bitch them out then fugetaboutit.

[SAnd]

I worked at a plant that had so many committees and meetings they had a committee committee. Its function was to coordinate when the various committees were meeting. They had a serious problem of committee members missing meetings because several meetings were scheduled at the same time. When they formed the "Committee Committee" it was the 67th committee. This was for a plant with about 250 employees. Also it was during a major maintenance outage. I figured they had significant amount of the work force in meetings at all times. Fortunately I was only on loan to them for about 8 weeks. The crew I was on had 6 people on it. In the 8 weeks I was there we never had a full crew working, at least one person was attending a meeting at all times. 2 or 3 gone was common. There was at least one day I was the only one on the job.

[Mtn.man]

I worked at a plant that had so many committees and meetings they had a committee committee. Its function was to coordinate when the various committees were meeting. They had a serious problem of committee members missing meetings because several meetings were scheduled at the same time. When they formed the "Committee Committee" it was the 67th committee. This was for a plant with about 250 employees. Also it was during a major maintenance outage. I figured they had significant amount of the work force in meetings at all times. Fortunately I was only on loan to them for about 8 weeks. The crew I was on had 6 people on it. In the 8 weeks I was there we never had a full crew working, at least one person was attending a meeting at all times. 2 or 3 gone was common. There was at least one day I was the only one on the job.

Sounds like our government. Must have been a liberal company.

[BlasterBob]

A teleconference is THE way to go, if you can assemble all of the committee members in close proximity of the phones.

[whitbaby]

We would return to a manufacturing super-power if someone just threw out all the chairs in every conference room in America. Meetings would last 15 minutes and accomplish all the same stuff if everyone had to stand the whole time.

Agreed, I was with Public Service as a consultant in the communications engineering group for a couple years.

After a couple months they asked me, as the latest member, how would I make the weekly meetings shorter. I answered 'take all the chairs out of the room'.
They just looked at me for a few moments and gave me a polite nod to acknowledge my suggestion. The chairs stayed.

;->

[Buff]

A teleconference is THE way to go, if you can assemble all of the committee members in close proximity of the phones.

I've been on numerous calls/Go to Meetings while at trade shows, the range,P-dog Shooting, Fishing, etc....... With today's technology there's much more freedom and it makes it a breeze to work without being there.

[trlcavscout]

We have our BS meetings every Wednesday morning. Same shit different pile, never any useful info. And because we are not productive from 6:30-8 they book more shit from 8-12.

[ben4372]

We have our BS meetings every Wednesday morning. Same shit different pile, never any useful info. And because we are not productive from 6:30-8 they book more shit from 8-12.

Cable guy?

[cstone]

Supervisor - After the meeting we will break up into small groups to discuss your individual power point presentations for the up coming teleconference that you will be flying to Dallas to attend.

Me - Just txt or email me whatever it is you want and I will get to it... at some point. Thanks.

I have no management potential [Coffee]

[Tinelement]

Had a meeting at the tap handle today.

Does that count??