Classic or Dud: Typing on laptops in meetings

i mean if people insist i go to a 2 hr meeting and waste my fucking time of course i’m doing other work in there

there’s being ~present~ and there’s not being a tosspiece

Well there’s many kinds of meetings

The type I prefer demands different attitudes than others - and some things that Microsoft Outlook calls “meetings” aren’t at all what I think of when I think “meeting”

Perhaps we need to have a separate thread to cover scope and use cases

If shit doesn't matter to you then you should leave the meeting or not show up in the first place.

You guys must have really organized meetings if you know exactly what time the part of the meeting where your input/attention is relevant is happening.

I go to the meeting because there's gonna be some part of it I need to attend to. The rest of the time, you can bet I'm on my laptop doing my job. So are other people.

Christ I'm glad I never need to sit in these sort of meetings. 2 hours long!? Mutiple team involvement with hours of shit not relevant to a person? That sounds like a badly-framed meeting to me.

Attending conference calls on the toilet c/d

eephus knows the score

- I have refused a jobs at company where the interviewer was clearly doing non-interview work on their laptop.

This happened! Sat there for 2 minutes, him typing away after asking "You don't mind if I...?"

Then he looked up and asked 'Any questions?" So I said no. And waited.

Perhaps we need to have a separate thread to cover scope and use cases

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 23 November 2017 15:54 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also, outfits that think agile means loading up the entire project team to 240% capacity but it's okay because ~user stories~

2 hours long!? Mutiple team involvement with hours of shit not relevant to a person? That sounds like a badly-framed meeting to me.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 November 2017 16:30 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good lord it's like you were there

I love how loads of people in this thread, knowing nothing of others' work situations or the utility of the meetings they attend, feel justified in telling them how to behave there.

"I'm sorry you can't attend, this is a Type A personality meeting only, the Type B personality meeting is down the hall, just follow the anguished moaning"

sometimes people invite you to a meeting so they have proof you were in the room 12 weeks later when they need someone to blame for the catastrophe they saw coming

I love how loads of people in this thread, knowing nothing of others' work situations or the utility of the meetings they attend, feel justified in telling them how to behave there.

*taps on laptop*

Guys it's only work chill out

*Attends meeting, sits back, counts down retirement clock*

Our yearly allhands meeting is today. These ones are the worst. Ive been at this company 10 years now, so the repetition of them (they go over similar ground ever year) is mind numbing after the first one or 2. Thankfully they dont go on forever but even an hour or 2 is too much. Basically we all have to sit in hard chairs and stare at the CEO blabbering on a videoconf screen from the head office, as does everyone in all our satellite offices.

huh, I just realised that "standing meeting" has two distinct meanings and I had only been considering one of them