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Alternatively, skip all the meetings anyway and then fire your middle manager. Or, if that fails, go work for a company that values your time.
by j4yav 3y ago
Alternatively, skip all the meetings anyway and then fire your middle manager. Or, if that fails, go work for a company that values your time.
- hef19898 3y agoIf you skip all the meetings, your middle manager will fire you and you will have to look for another company.
- j4yav 3y agoOh no, what will become of my beautiful performance management reviews
- hef19898 3y agoYou found a company of more than 5 people without those? Good for you!
- j4yav 3y agoAny company of under 200 with a middle management layer who enforces meeting attendence through the threat of firing and executes a formal performance review process should be considered de facto sociopathic imho.
- hef19898 3y agoCounter point: Any employee who refuses to go to meetings and coordinate with others is toxic. Meeting attendence is important, because - others need input or have relevant information to share - activities have to be coordinated - decisions have to be met and shared Getting the balance right is trickey, just not showing up is simply not acceptable so.
- j4yav 3y agoAgree to disagree maybe. But consider trying an experiment - take notes so anyone who wasn't there for whatever reason, intentional or not, can read them later, and don't threaten to fire anyone or insult them as being toxic who didn't make it. If you end up in a meeting by yourself, just make a decision and write it down. I'd personally at least be very surprised if all of a sudden you were unable to coordinate activities, make decisions, or share information.
- hef19898 3y agoMay I remind you that you started with >> Alternatively, skip all the meetings anyway and then fire your middle manager. Or, if that fails, go work for a company that values your time.
- j4yav 3y agoImho you'll find that a middle manager who spends his days in meetings by himself wishing he could fire the "toxic" people who didn't come is non-essential, but I'm happy to leave that journey of discovery as an exercise to the reader.
- hef19898 3y agoYou uave to be a real pleasure to work with...