#meeting

I’ve never seen anything like WFC when it comes to this. The reason people are busy is because they are cc’ed in a million emails. Seriously if you have to cc the entire team with rare exceptions your team su-ks.
And god- some people live to attend meetings. They never contribute and aren’t a decision maker but by god they turn up every week and stay for the whole thing. Almost as bad as the people running a meeting that covers all of their items in 25 minutes and then just keep talking to fill the whole hour. This is why we are inefficient. So much cya culture. Like god forbid the day you don’t attend the needless meeting and that’s the day something gets decided and then your boss pretends it’s the end of the world. Instead of just filling you in and moving on.

Three meetings so far today. Every single one, people staring at screens or out the window. Nobody wants to be there. Nobody is paying attention but looks like nobody cares either. What's the point??

Rip

Jk

Tomorrow night or Monday morning?

here is a quick rant and i hope it helps someone…

i was sitting in a meeting at work when i made the decision that changed everything.
my boss was talking. i don’t even remember what about — something minor, some non-issue being stretched into a conversation because that’s what meetings are. and i was sitting there half-listening, the way you do after enough years, and i just looked at him and thought it so clearly. i cannot do this anymore. not another ten years. not five. not one.
which sounds dramatic maybe. but i’d done everything right. two degrees, years of showing up, taking on responsibility, being the person who got things done. i did what you’re supposed to do. and there i was in my 50s, still just making it month to month. still waiting for something to shift.
i walked out of that meeting — not stormed out, just quietly left — got a coffee, sat down with a notebook, and wrote one sentence.

i am never, ever working for anybody else as long as i live.

i had no idea how i was going to make that true. none (it turned out well) but that almost didn’t matter, not right then. what mattered was i meant it. fully, no asterisk. and i knew i wasn’t going to talk myself back out of it the next morning like i probably had before.

i wasn’t going to sleepwalk through my own life again. that part i was sure of.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We have so many people whose only job is making slides. Same information, different font, new graphics. They add nothing. Cut them all and we'd probably get more done without all the meetings about the slides.

Something big is coming - VPs are doing non-stop meetings.

Anyone attending SM's meeting? Im hoping for some theatrics.

Why was the town hall for 3/5 cancelled

I already got my invite with upper management - a 1on1 invite that has never happened before. In Evernorth IT side.

Some have received email for meetings with Maca, a 15 minutes Team meetings

A new meeting is on my calendar for an SMB town hall on Friday.

Is this going to be a meeting for layoffs?

1400 Smith Lobby Closed the rest of the week. They want everyone coming into 1400 to use 1500 street entrances. "They" really should give the option to WFH this week
for the days those working in 1400 don't have any F2F meetings. It makes it su-k less for all involved, both those with and without F2F meetings.

Last minute invite to short meeting tomorrow morning for EIP. Is there a new SVP?

My boss scheduled a 30 minute meeting with my direct report tomorrow at 5. What could it be? Are they being laid off? Am I? My performance review is on next week, , could they just be getting their perspective on me? This is making me so nervous!

about a Tuesday morning Teams meeting they want to do with me and that I do not need to be in the office for this meeting. I have been thinking if they caught me or not. In any given week I may see my Ford manager once if at all when we pass each other in the hallway. Manager is away from our group a lot saying they have a lot of meetings to attend to in other buildings.
I'm not sure yet if I will do Tuesday's morning meeting with HR at my home or go into the office an do it there.

Dell just held its field readiness submit (FRS). In principle, it’s a great idea. It’s essentially a sales kick off, with one distinct difference… no individual contributors (account executives and presales) are in attendance at all - only managers. The last time we checked, managers don’t sell.. what an absolute joke! Instead, individual contributors watch online / virtual contact. Wake up dell leadership!!!!

A email was sent regarding a meeting that is supposedly coming up with the new Operations Senior Director. Per the email, the new Operations Senior Director wants to get “acquainted with our business”. Any ideas of on what this could mean? No date has been set for the meeting yet, just an email saying it will be soon.

Missed the first 20 minutes. Did I really miss anything of substance?

what's this meeting about?

I recently was shopping in the store and heard 2 managers discussing the meeting about layoffs. I didnt hear the entire conversation, but heard something about starting in march of this year. If this is on the store level, I wonder what areas they would target?

How does it go down at this company? Who tells you are being let go? Do you get a random call or is a meeting scheduled? What is typical package? How quickly are you asked to leave the office? Suggestions on how to respond when it happens?

When are we to have our meeting with supervisor to go over our scorecard ? I thought this happened in early February? I see no meeting scheduled .

Been with the company for 2 years, only had 1 meeting in person. Why cant we just be remote?

Been with the company for one year and only had one. Whats the point of going to the office?

Anyone else get the EMCO touch base call this afternoon?

Use this thread to discuss today’s UHC all-employee meeting

Does anyone know what the all Leadership meeting before the all employee meeting is about today?

Does anyone know what the secret meetings are for in Coral this week? Takis is here with other leadership.

Had a feeling it was coming

a bunch of us just arrived in Houston-All the talk is about how much trouble the company is in & how much are workloads have increased since the company laid off 250 employees-all the talk is about the $45m deficit & the lawsuit & the upheaval in leadership-In 18 months: greed, severin, festog, donaldson, goldstein, roehrich, loughery, gutteraireez, golatt, conway, are all gone-field sales leadership suxx-We are all very skeptical-Company is still hiding things from us. Client losses keep mounting-Company cant revenue-Many are looking to jump ship right after bonus time. May god save our souls. Now time to go to the bars to get sc-hit-faced.

Working in a subteam of Rocm in US. Two of my teammates were just laid off last week. My manager hold a group meeting to tell us about this.

Can anyone tell why BKR annual meeting is always held in Italy Florence? Why not Houston?

So now that January is over, did they do a layoff at the end of the month like it has been discussed? I think the date was 1/30? Or will something be this week? There's a big meeting on Wednesday I hear.

I have not received one. I am just curious.

I know they read from a script and they don't deviate, do they bother to say at the end "Any questions?"

I'm assuming not, and if not do they give you an opportunity to say anything before they end the call? Even if you realize that they probably cannot respond to it.

It’s Friday. Last business day of the month. Seems like a good day to reduce headcount. Anybody get called into a last minute Teams meeting with your very complicit PL and an HR stooge yet?