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Meetings. See Comments. First One Actually. Make Women Female Again |
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Chances are you've had a job where employees are periodically called together for a meeting of some sort. Some are quick and to the point, while others seem to drag on forever and ever and ever.... Yeah ... I've been to some that go on until everyone is yawning and almost falling asleep. Saying they're boring is a far too generous description of them. Peanut gallery - You know of what I speak, don't you? Even so, doesn't there always seem to be that person who is intensely interested from start to finish and might be described as the 'Brown Noser'? Never gets bored. Never wants the meeting to end. Asks endless questions. Hangs on every word out of the supervisor's mouth. Yada Yada Yada ..... We all recognize that person from a job we've had, don't we? Pretty much everyone at the meeting is rolling their eyes to one another with that "Why don't they shut the fuck up?" look. Is this ringing any bells for anyone out there in the peanut gallery? [image] Make Women Female Again
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LOL, we used to have those shift start pep talks, luckily ours didn't last too long. One of the co-workers was lactose intolerant, and would get a milk shake on the way to work, daily. Shortly after the shift would start, he would start announcing his predicament rather loudly. Luckily he was all bark and no bite. But the supervisor, regardless of how high his title that was doing the meeting, would soon lose all control of the meeting and dismiss it quickly, finished or not.
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Ha! We all have one of those at our respective jobs, don't we? We all know the drill... take a deep breath... exhale... let go... 
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Definitely experienced in the past. Now I am working in an agile environment that effectively uses ELMO (Enough, Let's Move On)to keep meetings productive and on time. Anyone in the meeting can raise their hand and declare ELMO when the meeting gets off topic or unproductive for the timeslot. Of course you have to have group consensus for this to work.
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OMG.....this brought back so many horrible memories !
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You just reinforced how great retirement is. I don't miss meeting like that at all.
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A few years ago I was working for a company & it was getting like you had to have a meeting to discuss when to have the meeting that was about arranging the meeting to discuss the new product. We suppied product to supermarkets. So I asked; "how much (name of large supermarket) paid for these meetings? Because it must be very profitable judging by how many meeting we were having." This went down quite well in some areas, in others, not so much!
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I never missed the days of long, and typically, non productive meetings.
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