Stupid meetings

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

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Originally Posted by spleify

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

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Been there.

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Originally Posted by blacklabel

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

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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

Anything worse than a meeting is conference and presentation.

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

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

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by BlasterBob

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

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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.