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Pro tip: once people are working in offices again, if this happens, whip out your phone and dial the room directly. People tend to speed up when they realize t
by rachelbythebay 6y ago
Pro tip: once people are working in offices again, if this happens, whip out your phone and dial the room directly. People tend to speed up when they realize they are blocking someone far away from dialing in, even when they don't seem to give a crap about the people standing just outside the door.
Of course, the ones who see your name dialing in and then spot you outside the room a few seconds later will be confused at first, and later may get annoyed with you, but remember, they were the ones who were being abusive.
- lightgreen 6y agoIt’s OK-ish to just open the door, say something like “uh sorry our meeting just started in this room”, then leave but keep the door open.
- phillco 6y agoI always wanted to breeze in, sit down, and say, “so, what are we talking about?” but never had the guts.
- piva00 6y agoWhich is probably good you didn't have the guts. Being passive-aggressive-impolite to people won't help them to be more polite about running over others' time. I always did the knock-on-door + tell them my meeting time has started and never had an issue, be assertive and people will move quickly. Escalating impoliteness doesn't help anyone except your own sense of self-justice.
- phillco 6y agoDon’t worry, it was not a very seriously considered idea.
- Izkata 6y agoBack in school, I was one of those people who watched the clock so I could just zoom out when it was time. That habit led me to assume others did the same, so when I started my first job I assumed meetings would end on time and I tended to just walk in without checking who is actually in the room (then pause and quietly back out when they all looked at me). Eventually broke the habit, but for the time I was doing it it did break up the previous meeting pretty quickly.
- ThePadawan 6y agoThis is also a helpful tip if the room has more than one door. I can't tell you how often my team knocked at door A to throw out another group that then all left by door B, leaving us waiting outside until we knocked again 5min later.
- nindalf 6y agoA simple knock usually suffices in my experience. Only a couple of times have people not heeded a knock, and there were extenuating circumstances.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThe physical rooms usually don't have phone numbers. The virtual meetings do. Anyway, peers shouldn't blame each other for management refusing to provide enough meeting space. It's management's fault.
- bayindirh 6y agoOur physical rooms have phones and external phone numbers. Also we had a big teleconference room back in the day where we did hybrid meetings. So, it depends. :)