shmmeee
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This is a thing. The point is to limit the meeting time not concentrate the mind though.
I once had a sales meeting where we were made to stand up for the whole meeting as supposedly that’s how the Japanese do it and it ‘concentrates the mind’.
I once had a sales meeting where we were made to stand up for the whole meeting as supposedly that’s how the Japanese do it and it ‘concentrates the mind’.
I used to do that, it actually worked really well and cut down on bullshit from colleagues.I create meetings on Teams with important names with just me invited. People don’t question it and it means I don’t get unexpected calls when I’m trying to do some fecking work or Xmas shopping in work time.
It may work in subservient cultures but certainly doesn’t seem to be a ‘thing’ in the UK.This is a thing. The point is to limit the meeting time not concentrate the mind though.
It may work in subservient cultures but certainly doesn’t seem to be a ‘thing’ in the UK.
We just assumed she’d cracked up with stress.
Mandatory 3 hour safeguarding briefing where the SLT safeguarding staff stand and read out KCSIE verbatim off a slide show. Well it should be 2 hours, but they spend one going ‘I know it’s boring guys, sorry’.Every single first INSET day after the summer holiday - biggest load of bollocks ever.
I get the concept but surely that just comes down to poor time management?We have a meeting called “standup” every morning. It’s quite common in software. We don’t actually stand up, but that’s where the name comes from cos it’s only supposed to last ten mins max.
Basically getting on the soapbox then?We have a meeting called “standup” every morning. It’s quite common in software. We don’t actually stand up, but that’s where the name comes from cos it’s only supposed to last ten mins max.
I used to do that, it actually worked really well and cut down on bullshit from colleagues.
We have a meeting called “standup” every morning. It’s quite common in software. We don’t actually stand up, but that’s where the name comes from cos it’s only supposed to last ten mins max.
It's one of the agile working philosophies, we used to do them when I worked in one of the NHS digital orgs. Along with a lot of other half-baked adaptations of agile.
I get the concept but surely that just comes down to poor time management?
Just tell them to ‘take it offline’ or whatever the corporate buzzwords for ‘shut the fuck up’ are for that week.
Agreed, it was the NHS in the public sector so a hybrid of agile and Prince and therefore utter nonsense. I don't work in development but a programme manager was trying to make me work in sprints (in a heavily regulated and governed environment)Agile is fine. The people who implement Agile however…
Agreed, it was the NHS in the public sector so a hybrid of agile and Prince and therefore utter nonsense. I don't work in development but a programme manager was trying to make me work in sprints (in a heavily regulated and governed environment)
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That's 1 then, because I'm not sharing!Yeah but we’re all autists who don’t like confrontation. I do frequently tell people to take stuff offline mind.
It’s like the “pizza rule” where you shouldn’t have more people in a meeting than you can feed with a pizza. It’s just another rule of thumb to try and tackle what always happens in meetings: there’s too many, too many people are invited, and they go off topic.
I've had my status set to 'Do not disturb' for 3 days
Similar, we have a 3 times a week project meeting, go over the same things and get nowhere, I say leave it at once a week and pass in any questions in teams prior to meetingI have a colleague who phones me if I have my status set to "do not disturb" but no entries in my calendar, to say that they know I'm not in a meeting. Very weird.
The other meeting set-up which annoys me is the recurring monthly meeting on a specific initiative. Everyone has to attend whether there has been any progress or not. The exact same crap is discussed as the meeting a month earlier.
I've been in a few (so called) pre-meetings to work out what we want the meeting agenda etc to look like. Basically a meeting to plan a meeting
Some people work in such unproductive pointless jobs that attending meetings is the essence of what they do. They can't understand that somebody without a meeting in their diary might be otherwise doing something.I have a colleague who phones me if I have my status set to "do not disturb" but no entries in my calendar, to say that they know I'm not in a meeting. Very weird.
The other meeting set-up which annoys me is the recurring monthly meeting on a specific initiative. Everyone has to attend whether there has been any progress or not. The exact same crap is discussed as the meeting a month earlier.
Sounds like the man in my avatar. I say what I like and I like what I bloody well say. No offence!Where I used to work they had weekly management meetings, even if there was nothing to talk about and they would always last 2 hours, whatever.
Anyway, same meeting every week, even when not needed.
I do remember one meeting in particular though....
We had a mechanical engineer, who was called Keith Spencer. He was a no nonsense, speak your mind, Yorkshire man.
Anyway, one day they had this meeting and some bigwig came down from head office to join said meeting. From this meeting room you could actually see our the window to people walking into the building, heading for the reception area.
The meeting was going along as per usual this day, updating on maintenance work and outstanding issues and budget targets etc.
As it progressed, suddenly, a smartly dressed woman, in her 30's walked past the window on the way to the reception area.
It caught Keith's gaze as she breezed past and took one look at her and blurted out loudly "I'd fuck her".
Most were shocked and one or two laughed, but mainly it was an unerring silence.
Anyway, suddenly, piercing through the silence, the guy from head office piped up and said "I will have you know, that's my wife!"
Another pin drop silence. Lots of heads in hands and people looking at anywhere else around the room to hide the embarrassment.
Keith immediately comes back with "Oh, okay.....but I'd still fuck her!"
Surely you need a good password if you want to survive a terrorist attack, unless your not having a good password caused the terrorist attack in the first place.Not a meeting but just been asked to refresh two and a half hours of training that I did nine months ago on ground breaking topics like “what’s a good password?” And “how to survive a terrorist attack”
We have an emergency button. I pressed it by mistake once and it turns out what happens is 15 minutes later the boss wonders past, guess away, comes back fifteen minutes later and asks if anything's wrongDid you know if a gunman comes into your place of work you should hide? Obviously you didn’t. You haven’t done the training.
I create meetings on Teams with important names with just me invited. People don’t question it and it means I don’t get unexpected calls when I’m trying to do some fecking work or Xmas shopping in work time.
It's one of the agile working philosophies, we used to do them when I worked in one of the NHS digital orgs. Along with a lot of other half-baked adaptations of agile.
The world of surviving a terrorist attack moves quicklyNot a meeting but just been asked to refresh two and a half hours of training that I did nine months ago on ground breaking topics like “what’s a good password?” And “how to survive a terrorist attack”
What's the other agile thing you do like a reflection process, can't remember what it was called. What went well and what didn't or something.Just had another hour added to my meeting load. “Insights session” where someone will go through a load of pointless graphs about how we are performing. Surely your job as a manager is to parse that shit and just tell us what’s changing and why?
What's the other agile thing you do like a reflection process, can't remember what it was called. What went well and what didn't or something.
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