I hate to waste time. Well, actually it’s more accurate to say that I hate to waste time when it’s not my choice to do so.
People who schedule meetings with little purpose, or to go over things that we all have heard 16 other times annoy me to no end. How on earth am I supposed to get work done when I’m in unproductive, pointless meetings all day?
Meetings when things are accomplished, work is completed, goals and roadmaps are set – those are worth my – and your – time. When will the meeting-for-every-little-tiny-thing people I work with realize this???????
I know I’m not alone in feeling this…if you Google “unproductive meetings,” there are more than 875,000 results. I’d like to ponder this phenomenon more, but I’m late to my next meeting…
UPDATE: The meeting I rushed to attend ended up being a duplicate of the hour long, pointless meeting I sat through this morning…
3 responses so far ↓
Heidi // June 17, 2008 at 5:57 pm |
I know what you mean. Lately I feel like my life has become a never-ending scene from the movie Office Space.
modernista // June 17, 2008 at 7:48 pm |
We need to band together against pointless meetings!
Katie // June 18, 2008 at 7:02 am |
I’m so glad I’m not in a position right now that requires many (if any) meetings. I can remember having to go to these same types of meetings…painful. Is it just me, or do “planning meetings” seem to be the worst?!