#24

Iā€™m in Milan for 3 days of meetings.
I normally enjoy it but itā€™s been pretty long and tiring.
Still in todayā€™s now - 9 and due to end at 7pm :confused:

#25

Never known a meeting come away any differently from how it was always intended from the outset. Stick it in an email, if anyone has a problem just pick up the fucking phone (or better yet just reread the email).

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#26

Our boss comes to visit every 2 weeks or so and we have a meeting where he basically goes through all the emails he sent to us over the past 2 weeks. Absolutely pointless.

#27

Like I get it, higher ups need to be seen doing something and this is their way of avoiding actual work - and I love avoiding work, but letā€™s do away with the pantomime of perceived flexibility, recognise the decision making all comes down to hierarchy rather than good ideas anyway, and then I donā€™t need to do my interested face the whole way through.

#28

Part of my job is typing out transcripts of meetings. I can confirm that you guys who have meetings, boy, sometimes youā€™re boring. But sometimes, wow, thereā€™s a lot of needle in there. Also, AGMs and so on can get properly heated. So yeah, meetings. A mixed bag, as an observer.

#29

100% bullshit because people canā€™t communicate properly

#30

People who say ā€œitā€™s good to talkā€ are invariably the ones it is not good talking to.

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#31

All ceremonies round our way.

#32

Iā€™ve just volunteered to be part of a new interview panel at my company, to do interviews with candidates about their values and cultural fit as opposed to their skills and experience, which will be handled by other people. We spent hours last week refining our company values and mission statement and questions we could ask to help to identify them in people.

I find the whole thing completely ridiculous and borderline bullshit, but I figure my best disguise is going deep undercover and pretending like I really care.

#33

i now work in the third sector so i feel that values etc. are actually meaningful but when i worked for private profit making companies it was so painful pretending there was such a thing as values outside of trying to make a profit

#34

if i had a job, iā€™d go to the meeting, iā€™d speak the lingo, iā€™d bring down the cracker establishment from the inside, leave a fucking snickers bar on the desk.

#35

Yeah this. So many people just say things that donā€™t need saying so they can be one of the people that says things

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#36

i fucking hate being a grown up. my little nieces and nephews love me because iā€™m so obviously an arrested child who lets them get away with murder.

#37

Managed to convince multiple employers my propensity to doodle in meetings was part of my natural learning psychology :joy:

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#38

Recent meeting I had with about 10 people in the room, and only really agreed to go along as they wanted a face from another department, started immediately going through stuff and first point was
"Oh, I sent over the details on this issue to im_on_safari, and he said he could sort"
Everyone looks to me and I have absolutely no idea or recollection of what the hell they were on about. Just wanted to say
"Oooooohhhhh for fuckkkkkkksake why did I commmmeee along just.fuck.off"

#39

Was it about change because if so it basically didnā€™t mean anything anyway right

#40

ā€œdo the workā€ oh cool yeah cheers good hustle such corporation

#41

used to hate 1-1 meetings, never knew the right ratio of eye contact to vague gaze, concentrated so much on that i ended up missing everything i was told.

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#42

I have a lot of meetings, some of which are really good and useful and some of which are deathly dull. The best ones are the ones where different people from different bits of the business all tackle a common problem and pretty much everyone has something useful to say. The worst are the ones Iā€™m sent to to be meat in the room because weā€™re trying to look important. Usually I say something that sounds incisive quite early on so I can not talk for the rest of it and just sit there thinking about bees or something.

#43

A few months back they introduced two ā€˜catch up meetingsā€™ each day where all the different teams ring in so we can share information with people who largely couldnā€™t care less about it.

Completely pointless for a multitude of reasons and smacked of an appraisal objective when it was introduced. I expected it to last 2 weeks max, but somehow it lives on.

I usually just ā€˜forgetā€™ or am ā€˜too busyā€™ to bother dialling in to itā€¦