Meetings

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• WamGams@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like your boss is just lonely.

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  • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He spends the first 30 minutes talking about football and asking us what our favorite dishes are

    Well, compared to doing real work, or being in a meeting where you actually have to pay attention, spacing out while your boss monologes about his private live seems like a fine thing to get paid for

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. To anyone saying it takes up time that they need to get work done, remember the magic words “What would you like me to prioritize?”

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• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I could have the ring halfway to Mordor by now.

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• AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My favorite feature of Zoom is automatically ending the meeting after 40 minutes.

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Perhaps oy only took 90 minutes, but it felt like days went by, just like many meetings.

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• Dequei@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, What is a rundown?

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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?

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah. If you repare a meeting, write it as a email. Then use that as base.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah. If you prepare a meeting, write it as a email. Then use that as base.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Boss says no. 🙁

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a reminder that corporate owns you and will do whatever it wishes with your time

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• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those same meetings, always:

  “So does anyone have any suggestions, ideas or feedback?”

  Fucking don’t, it’s a trap.

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