I get most tired in meetings that were very unnecessary. These are the type of meetings that later I have to try to figure out why they happened at all, and there are too many of such meetings. They almost never have a strict agenda and of course people will be totally distracted. It's just a waste of time. I don’t think they have any other purpose.
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There's a special place in he-l for those that take a clear solution and sew chaos and confusion into it.
This is a site frequented largely by people who don't have jobs at all. And you guys are whining about having to attend meetings? Does that affect your compensation? Get a life, pathetic crybabies, lol!
I wish we could drop the safty moments once and for all
Absolute waste of time.. Meetings are called more for the "me" show
I generally exclude those who i know will talk too much, confuse the matter even further or create more unnecessary work.. Funny that these people are also flying the D&I flag.. No you were excluded because you ask dumsh*t
IT has been spicing up meetings with hype music and videos in their agile ceremonies to keep things not boring, but quite a waste of time and money.
@dvz….I never understood the “safety moment” at the beginning of a safety meeting. As you said, the “moment” seemed to take half the meeting. LOL
I don’t go to meetings that don’t have an agenda. If you can’t take the time to plan the meeting then you’re not wasting mine.
What you’re missing is that these meetings allow Chevron managers-in-training to practice their “project management” skills, or formal managers to continue bungling their way through their jobs.
Obviously you shouldn't have been invited. But wait, may be you are invited so that you don't complain that people are cooking up nefarious schemes in secret meetings.
I tend to leave meetings like this fairly early unless they were called by my management or a higher level upstream.
Sometimes I'll leave people out of meetings that might be required solely based on my own pain from these banal meetings I am invited to on a reoccurring basis.
I once chose to attend the Leadership meeting of the BU that I advised over the regularly scheduled monthly staff meeting of my corporate department.
I was reminded how important it was that I attend the regularly scheduled monthly staff meeting of my corporate department and not to schedule conflicting meetings at that time.
True story...once sat in a meeting and by the time the safety moment was done, each person introduced themselves (avg 23 CVX people per meeting these days) and accolades were shared, it was a good 40 minutes into the meeting and we accomplished NOTHING. Texts and day time drinking were making up for lost time
Thanks for letting us know youre bored. Really valuable post.