lol, I'm notorious at work for thinking most meetings are a massive waste of time - because the vast majority of meetings are a massive waste of time. Almost every time it's just everybody sitting around waiting for the part that's relevant to them so everyone else can zone out & wait for their turn
Meetings are how underemployed middle-managers look like they are managing. Same people are the reason for other people to be back in the office otherwise they lose their jobs.
I design and provide support for meeting rooms, the amount of times I’ve stood in a corner and listened to people drone on about absolutely literally fucking nothing is amazing
There is such a thing as a useful meeting for engineers
They are short, involve a bunch of people jabbing markers at a whiteboard, and then you take a picture of the whiteboard and retreat to think about it more. At no point should anyone have a laptop open
the pain of somehow falling upward into a leadership (but not Management thank the gods) position at a top 5 Fortune 500 company, and being the only member of that leadership team that's on pacific time
Well it's a 9am for most of them and it's like a planning meeting for getting the work doled out for the day, hard to push back. idk it's okay, we endure.
Ah, ok. Still seems wildly inefficient ha, my team does meetings twice a week.
If I was the leader of a distributed team I'd probably do a meeting near end of day Pacific for the next day's work instead, but I hate mornings and have empathy ha ha
My junior developers do find value in meeting with the team to gain a deeper understand of their craft and the vastly huge code base they're working with.
Meetings are not sermons , and anyone using them as such is an idiot.
We have twice a week meetings, 15 minutes before end of shift. I skip them (except when the Home Office people are there & will make it an issue). The meetings never involve me or my department CWs, & it’s just them saying “Meet bigger quotas.” I’d rather watch my phone on the shitter, thanks
I am really happy with how this one turned out although @juicysteak117.gay has endless license to mock me for my incredibly dumb questions about how to do the editing for it
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it will come with MORE MEETINGS
It 100% is something that can be covered by an e-mail.
Not only could it have been covered by an e-mail, it was exactly the same as the meeting we had last quarter.
They are short, involve a bunch of people jabbing markers at a whiteboard, and then you take a picture of the whiteboard and retreat to think about it more. At no point should anyone have a laptop open
We have been wasting so much time.
I went back to the Wayback Machine for our website from 2003 - and the download is still there.
http://www.scribesunlimited.com/ebooks/SimplifyMeetings.pdf
We changed the title to "How to Simplify meetings" in a re-write, to get with "the times" a little.
Enjoy!
I took a lot of floppies over the summer and transferred a bunch of 1990s files. 😁
We self-published that one. Amazon didn't exist yet. Sigh 😞
I mean the bookstore not the river.
If I was the leader of a distributed team I'd probably do a meeting near end of day Pacific for the next day's work instead, but I hate mornings and have empathy ha ha
I went to one and then stopped.
Meetings are not sermons , and anyone using them as such is an idiot.
I don't do image editing, okay