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re: Colleagues texting in meetings
Posted on 6/12/15 at 7:52 am to Bigsike
Posted on 6/12/15 at 7:52 am to Bigsike
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Do you think this is disrespectful to the group and the person running the meeting?
Of course it is.
We have a few people in my office that are on their phones constantly during meetings. Sometimes they try to be discreet (with it in their laps, for example), which never works anyway. But sometimes they straight up have it sitting on the table and reading/texting on and off the whole time.
It drives me fricking insane, and I know it pisses off the director, who has started asking that no cell phones be present during meetings.
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Posted on 6/12/15 at 7:56 am to Bigsike
if they are a subordinate, after the meeting go up to them and pull an office space: I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, mmmkay.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 7:57 am to Bigsike
This is why I got a smart watch 
Posted on 6/12/15 at 8:05 am to Bigsike
Keep your meetings moving at a productive pace that follows the agenda. Avoid repeating crap over and over. Get to the point of the meeting and get it finished. If you keep the attendees interested, they won't get bored and find something else to do. If the people are not directly involved in the meeting, they don't need to be there. Don't invite more people that are necessary. If you use Outlook (or something similar) to schedule a meeting and list an invitee as "optional", they do not need to be there.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 8:05 am to Bigsike
I have buddies who say they can't go to lunch because of a meeting, then are texting me the entire time the meeting is going on. Why are you in there again?
Posted on 6/12/15 at 9:08 am to cuyahoga tiger
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If you are required to be at a meeting, it is for a reason.
Yea, because I'm the team lead and they want someone from each of our 12 teams present in damn near every meeting, regardless of the topic on hand.
ETA: luckily most of my meetings are over conference lines, but I typically bring my laptop with me to in person meetings and just continue to work, if it doesn't directly affect me. If the topic pertains to me I take notes on my laptop anyway.
This post was edited on 6/12/15 at 9:13 am
Posted on 6/12/15 at 9:16 am to Bigsike
What the hell is a "colleague"?
Posted on 6/12/15 at 9:51 am to GeauxWrek
I think there's a difference between presentation and meeting. If someone is giving a presentation I think most should be paying attention.
However, it's a meetings, numerous topics can be addressed that don't hinge on everyone's sector. I have no problem if the engineering guy is shooting emails while I'm working with finance or legal on a topic as he doesn't give a frick what we're talking about.
However, it's a meetings, numerous topics can be addressed that don't hinge on everyone's sector. I have no problem if the engineering guy is shooting emails while I'm working with finance or legal on a topic as he doesn't give a frick what we're talking about.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:35 am to Bigsike
Phone privileges in meetings are tantamount to your level of authority in the room. If you are too dog you can do whatever you want. If you are bottom of the totem pole, then you better keep your phone out of sight.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:36 am to FootballNostradamus
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FootballNostradamus
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However, it's a meetings, numerous topics can be addressed that don't hinge on everyone's sector.
Then that's a sh!tty facilitator. If you're in a meeting, it doesn't need to be in a roundtable. If it is, then those that have their issues covered should be dismissed by the person running the meeting and free to leave once they've fulfilled their reason for being there (updates, explanations, etc).
Meetings should only be called if they're necessary. Group e-mails can oftentimes take care of most issues.
Meetings-at least in my view-should have a laser focus, an agenda everyone gets ahead of time, action items with clear and definite deadlines on them, and then a follow-up e-mail detailing what-if anything-was resolved or assigned or agreed to if necessary afterwards.
This post was edited on 6/12/15 at 10:37 am
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:55 am to FootballNostradamus
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If someone is giving a presentation I think most should be paying attention.
I find that the people who are upset that no one is paying attention to their presentation typically give shitty, or pointless presentations. Common examples include:
- Covering a topic that has been covered recently.
- Reading directly off a powerpoint presentation.
- A powerpoint presentation with 36 lines of text on one slide, then 7 slides in a row with clip art, words flying in from multiple directions, and about 112 slides too many.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:59 am to Bigsike
I'm replying to this thread from a meeting right now.
Is that rude?
Is that rude?
Posted on 6/12/15 at 11:07 am to PrivatePublic
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Yeah, the reason being the manager who put together the meeting decided that it would look better if he just threw random people into it.
Then the problem is bigger than texting in meetings. Perhaps if you are in a meeting you feel is unimportant to you, perhaps you should bring that up after the meeting. Or, if your not the manager/boss maybe you don't have a clue and are expendable.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 11:09 am to Golfer
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- Covering a topic that has been covered recently.
- Reading directly off a powerpoint presentation.
- A powerpoint presentation with 36 lines of text on one slide, then 7 slides in a row with clip art, words flying in from multiple directions, and about 112 slides too many.
Sounds like you folks work for some very efficient organizations.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 11:18 am to cuyahoga tiger
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Sounds like you folks work for some very efficient organizations.
Eh. I find that is the older people who think we need to have a meeting for everything and all those present must be completely attentive to the situation at hand.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 11:25 am to Golfer
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Eh. I find that is the older people who think we need to have a meeting for everything and all those present must be completely attentive to the situation at hand.
Eh. I find that it is the young lower level employees, that think they know everything, that have done nothing to build the business, don't understand the big picture.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 11:31 am to Bigsike
PAPER BITCHHHHHH!
Posted on 6/12/15 at 11:35 am to cuyahoga tiger
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Eh. I find that it is the young lower level employees, that think they know everything, that have done nothing to build the business, don't understand the big picture.
Well the people I'm talking about have done nothing to build the company either. And they are typically trying to make my job of growing it much more difficult.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 11:43 am to CocomoLSU
I can't wait for some old fart to say something about me being on my phone during a meeting.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 4:14 pm to GFunk
If we don't have meetings every week how are we supposed to make project managers feel important?
Funny enough, I just talked to a friend of mine and she was pissed because she was checking her email in a meeting and her manager told their group to get off of their phones (this was in a 150+ person IT town hall style meeting), because she was scared that the project director would see them...the project director gives zero fricks, though.
Funny enough, I just talked to a friend of mine and she was pissed because she was checking her email in a meeting and her manager told their group to get off of their phones (this was in a 150+ person IT town hall style meeting), because she was scared that the project director would see them...the project director gives zero fricks, though.
This post was edited on 6/12/15 at 4:22 pm
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