I get to work at 9:30 every day, and don't leave the office until after 5 on Fridays, so 9:00 meeting is the loser for me any day because it requires me to be in the office when I normally wouldn't be.
How much stuff do I have to have prepared for said meeting? If I need to present, or have a ton of data ready, whatever, 9am on a Monday kind of kills the weekend joy. If I just have to kind of sit there and absorb, 9am on a Monday is far preferred to Friday afternoon.
I get to work at 9:30 every day, and don't leave the office until after 5 on Fridays, so 9:00 meeting is the loser for me any day because it requires me to be in the office when I normally wouldn't be.
This. While I do have to be in by 9, if the meeting started at 9, I'd have to be in earlier to prepare.
Re lunchtime meetings - these are the worst for me! My work, however, has begun to understand how bad this is. Just because everyone else eats at 1:30 doesn't mean I am going to be functioning thought a 2 hour meeting starting at 11:30. I barely make it until 12 as it is because I start at 7:30 am.
DH has a 3pm meeting every Friday that lasts at least an hour. I can't decide if it's a passive agressive attempt to keep everyone at work until at least 4 on a Friday, or a legitimate meeting time to review the weekly operations. Either way, it's annoying, because it's hard for him to duck out early on a Friday......which really only matters if we're going out of town for the weekend. But still, annoying, since it's a weekly meeting.
4pm Friday because I like to be done with work by 1pm on Fridays (doesn't always happen). Monday at 9am sucks if I have to prep for it but it's not too bad since I start the week at 6pm on Sunday night anyways.
Post by RoxMonster on Jan 22, 2013 19:03:26 GMT -5
Definitely the Friday meeting. I get to work around 730 so a 9 AM meeting would be great for me; I'd have time to have coffee and be in work mode for the day. But by 4 PM on Friday if I was still at work at that point, I'd be so ready for the weekend. I'd have no concentration. This is why I avoided Friday afternoon classes in college like the plague.
4 on a Friday. At 9, on a Monday, I have already been at work for over an hour. I get done w/ work at 4:30 and can't work past that, so it would be a rushed meeting and would not leave enough time to finalize paperwork (I have to case note all meetings).
Post by estrellita on Jan 22, 2013 19:52:23 GMT -5
I work 8:30-5 so time wise, both work into my schedule. I always have SO much to do at the end of the day that I could only really do a meeting that late if I knew someone else was getting everything done. The earlier in the day, the better for my daily tasks.
I attended a 9am Monday meeting every week for 12 years. It was just a "what are you working on and where are you on it" meeting so I could walk in the door and straight to the conference room if I had to. 4pm Friday would suuuuuck. I was still in the office at that time, but mentally I was ready to gtfo.
Friday at 4 would have me on edge. If the meeting ended on time alright i will do it but the minute people start asking for extra clarification and other questions that should be asked "offline" I am going to get pissed.
No question, Friday PM. I can deal with a Monday AM mtg but everyone is just OVER it by Friday.
This is how I feel. I'm usually at work 9-5ish anyway, so neither of those meeting times would be a huge imposition. But I start to mentally check out on Friday afternoons.