When the managers and leads dozing off in meetings, and you ask yourself is this for real!! how can they perform and make a quality decisions while they are sleeping in the meetings in front of their direct reports. Been in this industry over 20 years and been around the block I have seen bad things but CVX by far supersedes the others with its lack of accountability demonstrated by managers and leads.
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There is an HR bruise red partner who puts down church on her Outlook calendar. Who is she trying to sway?
People have meetings to arrange the next meeting. nobody talks anything coherent. when I started working here 7 years ago I had a different idea about the corporate world. Not too far into, I got to notice the slacker slacks in the company, from leads to upper management.
My estimate has always been: 50% of those in attendance at any meeting (being generous, it's probably a lot higher percentage) are there, only because it offers them immediate, positive affirmation that they remain, relevant. It feeds their egos. Simple as that.
Just check any manager's Outlook schedule and see how he/she is double or triple booked all day every day with worthless meetings. They never get anything done and you never can find them if you have a question.
Many of these scheduled recurring meetings is just to make managers and team leads look like they are busy and being productive. Half the time spent in these meetings are so unproductive and a waste of everyone's time... OE and Safety Moment, then a Diversity Moment, then onto business (if you can call it that). Then close the meeting with a Recognition Moment, Service Aniversary Recognition, then Action Items (usually requiring to be postponed again until next meeting). Waste of Time!!!! - Lol.
"Meetings", or, to be more specific, the preponderance of meetings, is simply stunning. To "attend a meeting" is to be "in". Conversely, to remain uninvited to a meeting implies you are "out", and becoming a "meeting queen" (no homophobic reference, intended,... although, probably relevant) is synonymous with success. "Worthwhile meeting" is an oxymoron.
Have a worthwhile meeting for a change