Has anyone ever...

Been to a work-related meeting run by people significantly higher up the pay scale than your own position, and had that meeting actually be useful? I am not talking about four people who are roughly equal in rank working in a committee, but a meeting called by "the bosses".

We sat in the library today for 3 hours. I gleaned no valid, useful info from this event that could not also have been obtained via memo....

During about half an hour of this time I found myself trying to remember if I'd ever been to a useful work-related meeting and found myself unable to come up with one... and then wondered if they actually DO exist.

At jobs I've had that held work meetings....I'd say no. Nothing but time wasters.

I didn't mind it when it was wasting time where I'd have been working anyway (such as when we held meetings at my ip-relay job...it was during normal job hours, we just got out of doing work).

But when I worked at petco and we had to come in at like 8 oclock on sunday after the store closes for a storewide meeting that has no use except for the higher ups to complain about sales like we don't know that we are supposed to sell stuff...pointless.

I have been to so many useless meeting.

I also have been on countless wasteful conference calls.

Sometimes I think people who get paid too much just sit around try to figure out how to waste everyone's time.

The most important thing I learned today was that we have a new grade-reporting program but they're not ready to show us a demo because of a tech glitch. This did not make me feel secure about the new grade reporting program. :eek1:

They then rambled on for hours about the potential for additional technology that we don't have the money for or any idea of where to get the money from, but oh yeah, we'd really like to have it.

And also, there will be a lunch provided on Friday.

That was important too. But could easily have been sent via memo while I was working on getting my room ready.

Rich in KY said:

I have been to so many useless meeting.

I also have been on countless wasteful conference calls.

Sometimes I think people who get paid too much just sit around try to figure out how to waste everyone's time.

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My exact thoughts too Rich. Hell, pay me to help save you money AND educate your staff. I am sure I could do better than some of them out there.

I have to agree, I've yet to be at a work-related meeting (national and state conferences excluded) where anything constructive or useful was ever accomplished. The same old stuff is rehashed for the employees that were hired after that last meeting, but they, like most of the other employees, will continue to ignore it, and when the 2 truly useful employees make any form of suggestion on how to actually improve the situation, we are cut off before we can finish a thought. Everything is for the financial betterment and personal glorification of the non-functional office manager/doctor's soon-to-be-if-he-ever-gets-around-to-making-it-official-ex-wife.

the last meeting i was at before i left that company they did on our 30 minute lunch break. they usually tried to rip our time off and use it as company time. but this time the owner was there too. so i was eating anyways then he gave us and extra 30 minutes. most useful meeting ever.

but in reality they were all stupid with stuff that was gonna happen that never did. the only usefulness i got out of a meeting before was some free tools when i said i could take 45 minutes off of my flat rate time if i had them. they bought them on the deal that i could do that. i found more use out of them and actually took off an hour and 20 minutes. so they were really happy and let me rightfully own the tools for proving that i could do it. so now i have some nifty tools for free.

Rich in KY said:

I have been to so many useless meeting.

I also have been on countless wasteful conference calls.

Sometimes I think people who get paid too much just sit around try to figure out how to waste everyone's time.

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I agree, Rich... A meeting has been called? Great... let me bring my laptop so I can do something useful on CS.com! LOL.

No I have not!.
Our work meetings are called by the owners and boss..and usually its because
Hevan forbid my Boss, who is also the hostess at the cafe..hevan forbid she has to work.
so as soon as she has to help out.....we need a meeting.
It always turns to WW3.
The Cook..never listens and never improoves.
We told my boss that she needs to stop annoying people. (all she does is talk to them and won't let them eat)
Its hurting business...she basically said...this is who she is ..deal with it.
But they complain about money issues all the time..

(sorry for the rant)

BUT My answer is NO!..
I have never had a productive work meeting..LOL


~~'manda:cheers: