re: Is timeliness no longer valued at all?

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The most common type of "uncivilized" behavior in the workplace is wasting someone's time to save your own. That's a textbook written statistic and the specific language used. As an example, let's say you don't know how to set up an out of office response on your outlook email. Instead of googling or youtubing an answer, you just ask someone that might know. What you're telling that person is that your time is more valuable than theirs. It's incredibly common in todays workplace.

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So most people would agree that most meetings are nothing more than a waste of time and are held so management can pretend as if they are doing something productive. Anything that is relayed in most meetings can be done outside of a formal meeting and with almost no impact on their employees time and those employees will remain productive. Instead, managers assume since they make more their time is more important so they call all their less paid employees together and waste their time doing the work the manager is supposed to be doing themselves...keeping up with what their people are doing.