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God save us all from pointless meetings! >_<
I just wasted two hours of my life listening to some old women ramble on
aimlessly about good communication. (Irony?)
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:4b055913@news.povray.org...
> God save us all from pointless meetings! >_<
>
> I just wasted two hours of my life listening to some old women ramble on
> aimlessly about good communication. (Irony?)
My ex-wife always used to say I never listened to her-- or something like
that, I think, maybe.
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Captain Jack wrote:
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:4b055913@news.povray.org...
>> God save us all from pointless meetings! >_<
>>
>> I just wasted two hours of my life listening to some old women ramble on
>> aimlessly about good communication. (Irony?)
>
> My ex-wife always used to say I never listened to her-- or something like
> that, I think, maybe.
HAHAHA! Brilliant!
--
Stefan Viljoen
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Invisible wrote:
> I just wasted two hours of my life listening to some old women ramble on
> aimlessly about good communication. (Irony?)
Oh goodie, another pointless meeting about to start. >_<
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> Oh goodie, another pointless meeting about to start. >_<
Why are you going then? I just don't go to meetings like that, and ask
someone who is more involved in it to tell me any important points that I
should be interested in.
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>> Oh goodie, another pointless meeting about to start. >_<
>
> Why are you going then? I just don't go to meetings like that, and ask
> someone who is more involved in it to tell me any important points that
> I should be interested in.
Because I would probably be subject to a disciplinary hearing if I
didn't turn up. (Unless I had a damned good reason...)
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>> Why are you going then? I just don't go to meetings like that, and ask
>> someone who is more involved in it to tell me any important points that I
>> should be interested in.
>
> Because I would probably be subject to a disciplinary hearing if I didn't
> turn up. (Unless I had a damned good reason...)
Well sorry, but to me not going to a meeting because there is no point in me
going *is* a damn good reason. Why would the company want me to waste my
time going somewhere that wasn't going to benefit me or the company when I
could be doing other stuff?
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scott wrote:
>>> Why are you going then? I just don't go to meetings like that, and
>>> ask someone who is more involved in it to tell me any important
>>> points that I should be interested in.
>>
>> Because I would probably be subject to a disciplinary hearing if I
>> didn't turn up. (Unless I had a damned good reason...)
>
> Well sorry, but to me not going to a meeting because there is no point
> in me going *is* a damn good reason. Why would the company want me to
> waste my time going somewhere that wasn't going to benefit me or the
> company when I could be doing other stuff?
Because this company truely *believes* that this meeting was actually
really, really important. The Director of HR herself has flown over to
the UK especially to talk to us about this critical new employee
performance enhancement system.
...except that what was described could be readily figured out by
anybody with an IQ in excess of 80 just by reading the assessment form.
And the form itself is only 3 pages long, so God knows why it took an
hour to explain it...
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:4b06bd79$1@news.povray.org...
> Because this company truely *believes* that this meeting was actually
> really, really important. The Director of HR herself has flown over to the
> UK especially to talk to us about this critical new employee performance
> enhancement system.
>
> ...except that what was described could be readily figured out by anybody
> with an IQ in excess of 80 just by reading the assessment form. And the
> form itself is only 3 pages long, so God knows why it took an hour to
> explain it...
I think it's obvious why it took an hour... the HR Director needs to keep
her job, and not let anyone get the idea that it's very possible that a
semi-trained chimpanzee could do it in her place. After all, the task must
have been complex and requiring specialized talent if she has to fly over
personally and spend an hour going over the thing in what I can only imagine
was *excruciating* detail. :-)
--
Jack
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Captain Jack wrote:
> I think it's obvious why it took an hour... the HR Director needs to keep
> her job, and not let anyone get the idea that it's very possible that a
> semi-trained chimpanzee could do it in her place. After all, the task must
> have been complex and requiring specialized talent if she has to fly over
> personally and spend an hour going over the thing in what I can only imagine
> was *excruciating* detail. :-)
Yes... excruciating... that's a good adjective. >_<
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God save us all from pointless messages! >_<
I just wasted two minutes of my life reading some
nerds rant about his meaningless dead-end job!
;-)
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> ...except that what was described could be readily figured out by
> anybody with an IQ in excess of 80 just by reading the assessment form.
I would have said that at the end :-)
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>> ...except that what was described could be readily figured out by
>> anybody with an IQ in excess of 80 just by reading the assessment form.
>
> I would have said that at the end :-)
Heee... Sometimes I think it would be really neat to have somebody from
the interwebs come over here and tell these people who dumb they're
being. ;-)
But hey, not gonna happen. Heh.
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> Heee... Sometimes I think it would be really neat to have somebody from
> the interwebs come over here and tell these people who dumb they're being.
> ;-)
Just be a bit more outspoken, not rude you understand, but saying more how
you are feeling about what you are doing. People will respect you more and
realise you have a brain for yourself and are not just a dumb sheep doing
everything they are told.
The HR Director was probably thinking to herself, "what a load of dumb f*34s
I give them this really obvious presentation and not one of them questions
the purpose of the meeting - LOLs".
IMO it's perfectly legitimate to query the purpose of the meeting when it's
not clear how you will benefit.
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>> Heee... Sometimes I think it would be really neat to have somebody
>> from the interwebs come over here and tell these people who dumb
>> they're being. ;-)
>
> Just be a bit more outspoken, not rude you understand, but saying more
> how you are feeling about what you are doing. People will respect you
> more and realise you have a brain for yourself and are not just a dumb
> sheep doing everything they are told.
>
> The HR Director was probably thinking to herself, "what a load of dumb
> f*34s I give them this really obvious presentation and not one of them
> questions the purpose of the meeting - LOLs".
>
> IMO it's perfectly legitimate to query the purpose of the meeting when
> it's not clear how you will benefit.
Heh. Just this morning I got an email from my boss.
Each month, he sends out a list of stuff he wants each of us to read.
Except that most of it has absolutely no relevance to the UK, and some
of it isn't even relevant to IT at all. But this morning I got an email
basically ordering me to go read all this stuff, even though there's no
point to it.
It's times like this when I wish I was better at diplomacy...
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> Except that most of it has absolutely no relevance to the UK, and some of
> it isn't even relevant to IT at all.
Hi <insert name of boss>,
Most of the links below are not relevant to the UK, and several have nothing
to do with IT. I'm struggling to see how these documents are relevant to
the work we're doing, could you explain please? Also I have lots of other
IT work to be getting on with, so I would appreciate if you could highlight
the most important documents that I should read first.
Thanks,
Invisible.
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scott wrote:
> Most of the links below are not relevant to the UK, and several have
> nothing to do with IT.
"Can you please let me know what I am looking for in these documents so I'm
sure I don't miss it while I'm reading?"
I've always found the best way to get out of meetings is to ask for an
agenda up front. Obviously that wouldn't have worked in this case, but in
about 80% of the cases, it's more a meeting to BS about some decision that
the guy calling the meeting has the responsibility to make anyway.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
You know the kamikaze monsters in Serious Sam
with the bombs for hands, that go AAAAAHHHHHHHH!
I want that for a ring tone.
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> about 80% of the cases, it's more a meeting to BS about some decision that
> the guy calling the meeting has the responsibility to make anyway.
I hate this in my company too, nobody seems to want to make a decision even
though they are authorised exactly to make such decisions. We end up in
situations where half the people are working on a particular project without
authorisation (because otherwise we'd never get any work done) and the other
half refuse to because they don't have official authorisation. Then there's
a meeting where they are supposed to make a decision, and guess what the
outcome is ... no decision :-)
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scott wrote:
> I hate this in my company too, nobody seems to want to make a decision
> even though they are authorised exactly to make such decisions. We end
> up in situations where half the people are working on a particular
> project without authorisation (because otherwise we'd never get any work
> done) and the other half refuse to because they don't have official
> authorisation. Then there's a meeting where they are supposed to make a
> decision, and guess what the outcome is ... no decision :-)
The more I hang around the Internet, the more the world seems highly
broken to me. I had always assumed that it was only my little part of
the world that was broken, but no - worryingly, brokenness seems to be
absolutely ubiquitous.
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> The more I hang around the Internet, the more the world seems highly
> broken to me. I had always assumed that it was only my little part of the
> world that was broken, but no - worryingly, brokenness seems to be
> absolutely ubiquitous.
Yup, but some companies manage to not be broken (I worked for one once),
they are the ones who make all the money. They seem to be in the minority
though.
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