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It’s been a practice of mine for years and several coworkers are only learning about it for the first time: I either decline meetings with no agenda or nothing
by dvtrn 6y ago
It’s been a practice of mine for years and several coworkers are only learning about it for the first time:
I either decline meetings with no agenda or nothing in the body, or leave them tentative and reply back with nothing but a question mark to the sender. Mostly decline.
- pc86 6y agoReplying "?" to a meeting invite is pretty passive aggressive, holy cow.
- mysticllama 6y agoi do this but would never reply with just a question mark (i'd politely decline or ask for additional context in order for me to attend). if i have no context for a meeting invite and it's lacking an agenda, i don't think it should fall to me to figure out what it is -- that's the onus of the organizer, in my opinion. i am open with those i work with about this policy and i have never had anyone take issue with it, in fact i've gotten the opposite -- positive feedback and others adopting similar policies. i think a key part of this is openness and positive and direct communication, though.
- samatman 6y agoIt conveys more information than the request, while demanding less. "Meeting, tomorrow, 11am" - "I need your time but can't be arsed to tell you why" "?" - "What's this about, then?" Personally, yes, I would respond with a full sentence. But it would mean the same thing, and doesn't do as good a job of discouraging the rude behavior.
- JimDabell 6y ago> Personally, yes, I would respond with a full sentence. But it would mean the same thing It has the same semantics, but the tone is entirely different. > doesn't do as good a job of discouraging the rude behavior. Passive aggressiveness doesn’t discourage people from the behaviour, it just makes them think you’re an unpleasant person. If you want somebody to change their behaviour, tell them what the problem is and ask them to change it. “?” doesn’t do that.
- dylan604 6y agoAt the same time, requesting a meeting with 0 information about the purpose is pretty rude. That kind of request is a pretty good indicator it's not going to be a productive meeting if the topic can't be concisely written.
- r00fus 6y agoI disagree. But I only send no-context zoom invites after the context has been discussed directly on slack or a previous meeting anyway so...