• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip
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    Don’t forget the 4 emails to plan the meeting. The meeting to discuss the plan for the meeting. The meeting to ensure everyone is ready for the meeting. Then the actual meeting. Now you have the follow up emails. The debrief meetings to discuss the meetings. The take away to follow up on from the meeting. The meeting to discuss the follow ups.

    All while the whole thing could have been a 2 sentence message in teams. With a 3 word response.

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    I tend to find them useful for taking nebulous, multi-faceted situations and turning them into a better understanding of what’s going on and then determining actual actions.

    As in “different customers want us to do different things, some of which overlap, some of which take ages, some of which are quick, some of which take a load of work to even understand, and who have we got ready to tackle this stuff?”

    The meeting takes a while and melts everyone’s brains by the end, but the result isn’t loads more long meetings.

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    2 months ago

    Perhaps it only took 90 minutes, but it felt like days went by, just like many meetings.

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      It’s when your manager drives behind you with an automatic rifle while you run for your life and makes you explain in excruciating detail every last bit of minutiae you are working on.

      Or is that a gundown?

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        Ours just repeatedly tell us not to give patients the TV remote and list off all the incidents that have happened in the past month related to people giving the patients the remote (hiding it in their rooms, watching porn in the dayroom, setting locks on the TV, etc). I never have and never will but at this point I’m kind of surprised we haven’t had to get it back from endoscopy yet.

        I’ve been thinking about starting a rumor that we did just for funsies. Just always wearing gloves while touching it. Acting cagey about it with the patients,“sorry I can’t tell you what happened to it” then whispering to my coworkers “well you know where we had to get it back from two weeks ago, right? …oh. Don’t worry about it. Just don’t touch it with your bare hands, OK?” And I’m bluntly honest about stuff no one is like 99.99% of the time so if I start this shit every one will be talking about it within the week.