re: Corporate, industry conference pet peeves.

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BabyTac

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Please who post about their pet peeves while I'm in the middle of my slide deck.

Why don't you get off your phone and level set with my synergy?

When the after hours social is only beer and wine

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The a-hole that raises his phone to take a picture of a slide when the presentation is available online.

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I guess I’m an a-hole. I take pics of important slides so they are easier to find on my phone at a later time

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If you finish the pot of coffee, start a new one please.

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What kind of lame arse conferences are you going to? The conference or a sponsor should be doing that.

okay. this is something we all deal with on a weekly, monthly, yearly basis.

was a thread necessary? your examples aren't even funny.

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we have a corporate one every year

Our CFO always gets a vender to sponsor lunch and dinner. So i have to listen to BS presentations often filled with useless information before every lunch and dinner because our parent company is too cheap to buy a meal

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we have standards meetings that we have to attend at least twice a year, and a couple of other optional meetings, they're basically paid make work type days, our company used to make a big deal out of the catering but we clapped back and said let's do working lunches so we can get to happy hour earlier, now they have pretty nice box lunches prepared, they still have beverages and snacks out all day and are constantly refreshing everything

You bitch more than anyone on this board

Your blood pressure is probably boiling 24/7

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Younger people call a powerpoint a slide deck. Get with the times.

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by younger, do you mean 50-year-old managing directors?

"Traction"... we need, we have, we are gaining, or are losing.... Traction.

I look at these people and think... just STFU.

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The slow demise of booth babes

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I was working for a Japanese company in 2000 - 2004 and we had some fine booth babes in these skin tight silver clothes wearing 4" FMP's, and a potential customer that we didn't know came by the booth, and over the next year, I did over $8 million in new business with this client.

Six months into the work he tells me, "if you hadn't had those amazing looking babes in those silver outfits, we likely wouldn't even be talking. I was walking by your booth (it was large, like, 80'x80', with an upper deck for meetings and a balcony where the girls would lean over and wave at guys staring at them) and they caught my attention, so I walked in. I wasn't planning to talk to anyone at your company."

Now, you can't do that, or you risk getting ratio'd badly on social media. So most companies now use only their own employees and no booth babes, anymore.