Corporate meeting pet peeves…

Holy shite, I agree with BabyTac about something.

I worked in sales for a New Orleans company that had Monday morning sales meetings at 7:30 AM.
That meeting was not moved to a later time the Monday after the Saints won the Super Bowl
That was the day the sales manager lost his team.
Talk about being out of touch.

Corporate meeting pet peeve
—mine is, corporate meetings

Dear Businessweek

TPS reports

We will just have to "circle back on what you said as we continue to streamline our processes and look on how we can capture the potential for Q3 here"

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We will just have to "circle back on what you said as we continue to streamline our processes and look on how we can capture the potential for Q3 here"

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Meetings like this make me want to unalive myself. Use real words or STFU.

1. Starting a meeting by asking people how their weekends were, if they saw "that movie/show" yet, etc. Basically anything other than the topic of the meeting.

2. Starting a meeting by having everyone introduce themselves.

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Do they serve coffee at these imaginary meetings?

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Off topic, but when I was a very young engineer fresh out of college in the mid 1980s, I worked in an office with about 400 other engineers.

There was always a meeting being held somewhere, and there were always coffee and donuts catered.

There was one old-timer who roved around all day, stood in the back of the meeting room while eating a donut, then moving on to the next one.

As far as I know, no one from management ever called him out on it.

He was one of those really smart autistic types.

Also people that consistently schedule meetings and reschedule or cancel them 5 minutes before they are about to start.

Fired a girl once that was notorious for doing this among other irresponsible, selfish things.