Posted on 07/13/2022 12:38:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A friend of mine and her co-workers, who had been successfully working remotely for over two years, recently were ordered to return to the office.
... To watch a Zoom meeting starring their “Big Boss.”
I remember some Teachers’ Meeting where the topic discussed was 2” of paper, legal or A4, to go into the copy machine.
The Jester was the only one who could tell the King the truth.
most of the “managerial” staff in this country is not needed whatsoever...and the more silly degrees they possess, the worse they are....
Legislatures are nothing meetings of meetings with all real decision making delegated to the lifer apparatchiks of the executive agencies.
40 years in the financial services industry. Responsible for multi-million dollar contracts, hiring and firings etc. with a gun to my head I might be able to remember 3-4 meeting that couldn’t have been handled with a memo or an email.
Meetings were easily 20-25% of my time.
I swear I once went to a meeting, the subject of which was a separate, upcoming meeting on the subject of;
Meetings.
When I ran meetings, we had a start time, a finish time, a clear agenda which we stuck too and no extraneous bs.
When colleagues knew I was to chair a committee, they volunteered to serve on it.
Also, when meetings dragged on and on and people who love to hear themselves talk, I simply excused myself and left to attend “necessary family matters.”
So did you stay with the company?
Many meetings are worthless. But I can remember many meetings that made something change per the goal set. So I call BS on this “ study”. It simply is not true.
Don’t laugh too hard but while working for a Fortune 50 that was my primary job: Plan for a plan. While working as a chief architect/engineer my job was to create billion dollar programs starting with the plan for a plan. Basically, what will need to be considered in the planning process; large scale enterprise wide architectures, personnel, current programs and incorporations, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, financials, executive reporting structures, on and on.
Bee got ya.
Of course.
Yep!
Got tired of it.
Had high hopes....
Yep, lol 😂
Understandable
I had a chance to escape to another, umm, kinder, gentler Big 6 company.
My nieces were in town from out of state at the time - about 5 and 14 - I was watching them so I (having flown back in town and boy were my arms tired) would have had to drag them to the interview
But I screwed up again, twice, as pressing family matters kept me from two jobs where I would have been acting CEO and acting VP at another. Hated passing them up
In retrospect......big oops
If it weren’t for meetings, what, pray tell, would employees post into those expensive electronic scheduling software packages that are installed on everyone’s computers?
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