...who has scheduled regular Monday 8AM status meetings,
what kind of a$$ho1e are you?
We all know you are a hi-potential brown noser trying to win the sympathy from our supervisor, but did it occurred to you that the mood of the team a Monday at 8AM is very likely to be sub-optimal?
Why don't you do something really useful for the team and find yourself a new assignment, far away in a distant galaxy with a$$h0l3s like you?
Isn't 8am outside of core hours?
I like having Monday morning team meetings. It sets the plan for the week amongst all team members, gives a quick forum for questions on outstanding items, and gives you the rest of the week to keep your head down and focus.
As for the bashing of single parents, it isn’t always marrying someone you’re no longer compatible with. Sometimes people unexpectedly DIE. Why be such a di-k and make assumptions?
If 8am meetings don’t work with your schedule, then use the Flex Your Day policy and work from home on Monday. If someone gives you grief about it then that’s on them. You’re joining the meeting versus not showing up. If there’s a problem with that then someone isn’t a team player and they need a fat reality check.
To the single parent, it’s not any company’s fault or problem that you married bad, it shows that you are not a good judge of character. Your problem is time management - get up earlier if you have to get kids to school, duh! I’m sure you make time for the things you want. It comes down to priorities. You married bad, that’s a problem, now you have to make other adjustments like getting up earlier or finding another job. You could be a school teacher at the school your children go to. Problem solved! You go to work the SAME time your children do, finish the SAME time and are off the SAME days. It’s not difficult, grow up, quit playing the victim. You screwed up, now take responsibility and fix the problem. Stop crying about it. Take control of your life.
I would never want you to work for my company OP. Your work ethic is lacking as is your attitude.
Minority opinion here but kick off meetings on Monday morning can be helpful as long as it’s short and simply exists to help the team collaborate- find ways to help each other out. If it’s a status report- it’s worthless. But if you’ve got folks synchronizing work activities and working together - it’s helpful.
Team lead needs to be up to speed so they can tell management about all the good work they are doing and establish some recognition for themselves. My guess is there’s a standing management meeting shortly after.
@3hnb … no I think you are wrong and small is centri minded ... better for 8am sundays if you truly are multi cultural and respect Doha time and the way women and minorities need to be treated.
Better to do at 5PM on Fridays
Wtf…insane to have “status” meetings once a week, especially at 8am mondays. Shows the incompetence of your leaders that they dont know what is going on and are so insecure they will get a 9am call from vps asking for status update. I just refuse to participate and I told my supervisor if they need to know what I’m doing then call me, but I will not waste my time listening for 55-75 minutes once a week of my colleagues stating what meetings they will attend or that they will be on vacavtion next week and getting fat eating donuts and breakfast burritos. Stupidity at the highest level showing the ineptitude of the unqualified people promoted to first and second line managment positions to hold meetings to keep their unqualified selfs informed.
Obviously this person doesn’t work in a manufacturing environment, where daily morning meetings happen back-to -back around that time.
I hope you told your GL to move it back an hour because core business hours start at 9 instead of just complaining in this website.
With that attitude you make it an easy case for NSI. And some further advice, take the PIL because you will never pass a PIP.
Wow.
You people have spent so many years in this toxic environment that toxic leadership behaviors are not only normalized, but also encouraged.
We are getting paid to get our job done.
Yes.
But we are not robots.
We have lives beyond work and what happens outside work does affect how we perform at work at this is perfectly normal and perfectly accepted and understood in any non-toxic work environment.
A good supervisor is first and foremost concerned with the wellbeing of employees, and second in what those employees can produce.
And yes, this is how non-toxic companies operate: people care about each other.
Take for example single parents like me, that have to get the children ready Monday Morning for school, then drive them to school (each to a different one), then commute in stressful traffic for over 1 hour to get to the office and, if everything works out perfectly, with no contingencies, no crying, no forgetfulness, no traffic accidents, and with enough luck to find a convenient parking space, can barely make it at 7:55.
It easy to imagine that any non-robotic human being would not have an optimal mood at 8:00 AM Morning under such circumstances.
It is also easy to imagine that having this meeting just one hour later would make a tremendous difference for such individual and have no consequences whatsoever in the effectiveness of the team.
So, according to toxic minds like you, a supervisor should not give a fk about any of this, because "we are being paid to do a job".
It doesn't take any effort to move this meeting to 9AM and not doing so is not only counterproductive, but also tone-deaf, id--tic, repulsive, and those of you who support such behavior are bullies and psychopaths and I wish one day you find yourself in a challenging situation in which you feel miserable and overwhelmed and that your supervisor doesn't give a fk about it and you remember your own words "you are getting paid to do your job".
Can’t have a meeting at 8 AM on a Monday? What time do you wake up snowflake? How have you not been PIP’d already? Cant have a meeting because your girlfriend broke up with you an hour ago? Grow up! Work doesn’t revolve around your life. You need to go to another company, preferably a competitor.
I mean you’re paid to work so work. Or don’t and leave. It’s entirely your choice.
Try 0730 every Monday, then get back to me. Don’t complain. If you can’t handle a meeting in the morning, then you should probably re-think the whole “go to the office and get paid for it” thing.
"Someone's having a case of the Mondays"
You are getting paid to do a job and nobody gives a f**k about your mood on a Monday morning. If you don't like it find another job.
Your supervisor can mot schedule a meeting because you may not be in a good mood? WTF?
Yes, exactly.
Imagine your supervisor schedules a meeting one hour after your girlfriend breaks up with you.
He/she can, but it won't be very productive, right?
Why? Because you wouldn't be in the fking mood to talk about work!
WTF
Yes.
A good supervisor will be sensitive to the mood of the team because not being so is counterproductive.
For example, if a once in a century pandemic breaks out and there's huge uncertainty about what this new disease can do to you and your family, then a good supervisor will be sensitive to this and, for example, avoid discussing about 10 years plans.
Why?
Because nobody gives a damn fk about what's going to happen in 10 years if they don't know if they or their love ones will die this month.
Moods are important dude.
Get it?
At least your supervisor/manager bothered to schedule team meetings.
My former supervisor, a supposed high flyer, never bothered to have ANY team meetings. Spent ALL his time brown-nosing. Only scheduled 1:1 to dump his work on direct report with unrealistic expectations. Gave no directions or context. Hoards information. Lies to cover up his mistakes. But quick to show up to take credit. Absolute dirt bag now promoted.
Monday at 8 am is ideal. Gives you a couple of hours to review the last week and be ready to share any information that can help the team to be productive for the week.
Given your grammar and attitude, find somewhere else you think you may fit.
I’ll agree a status meeting on Monday at 8am doesn’t sound optimal. People are just getting back from the weekend and may not recall the latest status. It would probably be better to do this any other day of the week.
You seem unhappy at EM. Time to move on.
Your mood can sure put your ranking at risk.
Your supervisor can mot schedule a meeting because you may not be in a good mood? WTF?
Sounds like an inexperienced wannabe, IMO