They sometimes take a third of a workday or more. 90% of the time they are completely useless. Most of the time they feel like they are being held for the sake of pretending that something is being resolved or agreed upon. They all depress me, because they showcase the incompetence of management and some of the colleagues I’m supposed to rely on.
9 replies (most recent on top)
Constant need for meetings because no one knows what's going on! Always having to beg for resources and help.
Less meetings, means less people needed to work here. People have meetings to look busy.
There was a no meeting Tues policy for a bit. That somehow morphed from weekly to monthly and then I think it went to quarterly. Just shows how ingrained meetings are in our culture. I imagine a lot of people got the itches without them, didn’t know what to do with themselves.
I'm trying to figure out when the company made the shift to jumping from meeting to meeting. I swear it wasn't always like this.
You can always get a job at one of those “less meetings more work” companies.
Atleast you get to have meetings. Our department doesn't get to join them or even have team meetings for updates anymore.
Some people think their job is go to meetings all day. Problem is, they do not take work away from these meetings. They blow smoke and then go to the next meeting. I've never seen anything like it.
it is definitely meeting overload. there are a large % of associates that have to host meetings to justify their existence.
I never thought I would miss the days where we had to schedule a meeting room and walk back and forth between rooms.