I’m afraid. I just got notification of an upcoming meeting:
Discuss the strategy for granting Linux user IDs to the application users as part of the Web Logic Admin server migration to Blades Project.
Anything that starts “Discuss the strategy” and ends with “project” always seems to wind up having too many milestones and pre-meeting meetings. I just hope my group can wriggle out of needing to attend. I know these Web Logic people, and they don’t even have dry bagels at their meetings.
Any meeting to discuss software implementation can only end in tears. Possibly only tears of boredom, but perhaps tears of unending pain, too.
This is why I do not go to meetings. At all. Anymore. Ever. I will take a vacation day if necessary. I will schedule meetings, I will order food for meetings, I will pass on emails about meetings, but I will not attend meetings. I have found that this makes my day much more pleasant.
One of the managers in my company likes to have meetings for no reason.
His first meeting was to call us all together, to let us know that he will having a lot of meetings.
Well, at least drinks are provided…
Sadly, your strategy meeting description seems to involve several different sizes and types of cart, as well as several different sizes and types of horse, and I’m guessing the person who called the meeting isn’t quite sure what order things are supposed to go in…
Ah, a meeting pimp. Those people are dangerous.
At the company I used to work for, the CEO decided that 2-hour meetings every Friday would be a good idea. The first one was about benefits. The second one was “open to whatever you want to discuss.” Total snoozefest. By the 5th meeting, no managers could be bothered to show up, but they did make the rest of us watch a video about how not to run meetings. Preaching to the choir.
Eventually, these meetings became quarterly, and lasting all day. Sometimes two days. The last one I remember was catered. Three times. On just the first day. Fourteen hours. Ugh.
The worst part was a presentation by two women who decided to make their speeches more fun by immitating the NPR ladies popular on SNL at the time. (Good times. I’m excited.) The thing is, Molly Shannon and Ana Gesteyer, two talented comediannes, can make this funny, with the help of a good script, for maybe 3 minutes. Two no talent business women, droning on for two hours about profit margins, are just begging to be pistol whipped.