There are way too many unnecessary meetings. I’d love to actually get work done, but I’m constantly held back by meetings that feel completely pointless. It’s exhausting having to sit through the same things being repeated over and over while my real tasks pile up.
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If you're not contributing anything to it, then dont get on it.
I really enjoy the meeting prior to the meeting, to discuss the upcoming meeting.
Great strategy and get no action items. It really works.
You must be one of the people that sit on TEAMS meetings and never contribute to the discussion and scared you may take an action item. Best you move on as your taking a seat others would do better in.
Far too many mistake quantity of meetings for value/worth.
This place is the king of the never ending weekly call that could be an email and the overwrought PowerPoint (and accompanying ‘I need a slide’ emergency that wastes hours
for some meeting that will be forgotten about in a few days.
Now in MGO they are calling meetings ‘ceremonies’ and files ‘artifacts’ as part of this grand blueprint thing that’s only spawning more stupid meetings and PowerPoints. The stupidity never stops.
Far too many view the quantity of meetings as a measure of “value”.
Every single day I get on multiple calls to re-explain and re-hash the same straight forward discussion I had two days ago. Someone takes notes and after the call something gets lost in the translation when handing the work over to someone else. I white board it, I discuss it, I confirm that they understand, we convene, and one hour later my MS-Teams lights up with questions from the person that received the work. They are lost. They don’t understand what to do. They weren’t provided ample context in which to work through the big picture on their own. I now explain what was just discussed in the previous meeting but by the end of the day I receive another meeting invite on the same topic, scheduled over another meeting or in between the precious free time that I have available. Jeremy and every other leaderless slug in ATS owns this wasteful, dysfunctional work process, I get paid either way but it is exceedingly draining my patience and my will to care anymore. So much for collaborating in the office and having meaningful connections. 💩
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: for decades AT&T teams have functioned without being co-located. The only way team members could feel they were contributing or even being part of the team was to join every phone meeting they could. And, of course, a phone meeting is great for "multitasking".