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People should decline pointless meetings.
by asaph 7y ago
People should decline pointless meetings.
- helpPeople 7y agoWhat if it's pointless to you, but someone else needs to hear the status because they need to decide what's important to tell the vice president?
- asaph 7y agoDo you mean the Bee-Watcher wants to know what to tell the Bee-Watcher-Watcher?
- potta_coffee 7y agoI no-shit had a manager that made zero decisions or contributions, but wanted detailed notes on what we were doing so that he could take credit for our work in meetings.
- WhompingWindows 7y agoAn interesting idea...supposedly at Tesla and SpaceX, Elon recommended that anyone who found a meeting to be pointless should get up and leave immediately. I don't know if that's still the practice, maybe someone from those companies can chime in.
- crustacean 7y agoThat has presumably worked _for Elon_...
- abawany 7y agoDavid Marcus (FB, previously PayPal) had (has?) a similar stated policy regarding meetings.
- crustacean 7y agoIf my meetings happened as described with no one rescheduling or derailing them then actually my meeting life would be fine. I want to go to the meetings described on my calendar. But nearly every time “It’s a trap!”