This is the weirdest meeting

[niq]

I love my job, but some of the folks who work for our parent company don't know how to run a meeting. they're hosting a brown bag that is way too deep in the weeds. Someone in our office is trying to hijack the meeting so that it's actually useful. No joke.

What's the most awkward meeting you've had lately?

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[sarack]

laura- you have those weekly? we only have them monthly, lol. it's a joke. nothing gets fixed.

[Deleted]

Not at this company, but at an old company I attended an hour long meeting on how to host a productive meeting. No, this meeting wasn't for meeting planners, it was for your average joe worker. There were points like:
be on time, have your materials prepped, etc...

I will never get that hour of my life back.

[carylee07]

We have real estate meetings that talk about "deeper penetration" into markets. I mean, they really couldn't come up with a better phrase?

[joenali]

We had a meeting last year that went like this: the district is making you do this, but we don't have the materials ready for you yet, but you still need to do it. We don't know when the materials will be ready for you to do this.

That was a two hour long meeting.

[jennlin]

Sept 4, 2012 18:57:35 GMT -5 carylee07 said:

We have real estate meetings that talk about "deeper penetration" into markets. I mean, they really couldn't come up with a better phrase?

:y:

we have hour long meetings that could've been done with a few lines in an email. but i think everybody has those, right?

[niq]

Sept 4, 2012 16:56:53 GMT -5 @uwhuskygirl said:

Not at this company, but at an old company I attended an hour long meeting on how to host a productive meeting. No, this meeting wasn't for meeting planners, it was for your average joe worker. There were points like:
be on time, have your materials prepped, etc...

I will never get that hour of my life back.

Please tell me someone made a "yo, dawg" joke out of this.

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Sept 5, 2012 9:25:47 GMT -5 niq said:

Sept 4, 2012 16:56:53 GMT -5 @uwhuskygirl said:

Not at this company, but at an old company I attended an hour long meeting on how to host a productive meeting. No, this meeting wasn't for meeting planners, it was for your average joe worker. There were points like:
be on time, have your materials prepped, etc...

I will never get that hour of my life back.

Please tell me someone made a "yo, dawg" joke out of this.

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I wish. People were totally in to the meeting. ^o)