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while I agree with it, there’s also another side to it
I’ve been on too many calls where the meeting leader / management says some bullshit that’s incredibly unclear and unactionable, and they need to admit that in front of everybody before they start blaming teams for underperforming
Yup, after 25+ mins of conversation, often there aren’t any actionable takeaways and noone has taken ownership of anything.
I’d much rather spend a few mins working out who’s on the hook for what, rather than meet again in a week and discuss the whole thing again with zero progress in between.
It depends on how much management is above or below.
There have definitely been times in my life where a meeting was just a reason to zone out and take a break while someone else got their chance to listen to their own voice.
Wait, you pay attention during a teams meeting? How? Can you teach me this superpower?
And then it’s not even a question but a statement phrased as question just to sound smart
Just rehashing what was already said.
But you need to ask doubts though
Real answer: true.
Joke answer: so I was done, but you wanted to ask me a… question ⁉️ 🤪
Well, I wasn’t done 🤷♂️
Username checks out… somehow. 😜
Oh my god, this triggers me. Last meeting of the day, already longer than necessary because people just repeat the same bullshit over and over and then, when everybody is ready to go, some asshole cunt brings up a completely unrelated topic. So much rage.
We had someone like this in our team; we called him Colin The Cuntopillar.
For that reason, there should be a sysadmin in every call, who can just reboot the offenders machine
Don’t you fucking dare suggest that I as a sysadmin must now attend every single meeting in the company.
I mean I could do that, while playing games on the second monitor, and getting no other work done.
Just don’t complain when everything comes crashing down in a month from lack of maintenance.Or a hired killer on standby.
End call early?
*ends call*
Everyone at my office would think of the same person after seeing this. It’s always the same fuckin guy.
Solution is simple:
- Meeting Lead: “If there are no questions we can end the meeting early.”
- Sergio: “Ok, bye!” (signs off)
- Moot McDetail: “Ackshully, I just was wondering…”
If you have work, why don’t you ask your manager if you can get back to it?
Because then the manager might directly order you to wait. So then if you leave you’re directly disobeying an order.
But if you just sign off and they call you on it, you can say you were SO ENERGIZED to meet this quarter’s deadlines that you just couldn’t stop yourself from getting back to work on the project! Then you can say “yeah, it’s my biggest flaw, I’m so excited about my work that sometimes I don’t spend enough time in meetings.” Bonus: that way you never get promoted to management.
Ngl I’d be annoyed if my manager asked me to wait to the end of every meeting for no reason.
Also, lolwut? does saying “you were SO ENERGIZED to meet this quarter’s deadlines that you just couldn’t stop yourself from getting back to work on the project” actually work? My manager would be pissed if I told him that I get so excited about my work that sometimes I don’t spend enough time in meetings.
Also, I definitely want to get promoted to management.
If you’re the one doing this in a last-minute meeting at 5pm on a Friday, just don’t.
you know what, I’m kind of on their side. don’t fucking book meetings on Fridays, let alone Friday afternoon. make it painful so they learn their lesson. short term pain, long term gain.
