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> But when you suggest that no work is accomplished in any meeting, you're wrong. This is where we disagree. Talking about work isn't tangible work. Talking un
by pifflesnort 14y ago
> But when you suggest that no work is accomplished in any meeting, you're wrong.
This is where we disagree. Talking about work isn't tangible work. Talking unblocks work, to a point.
> I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience with meetings; it must be common or the stereotype wouldn't exist.
Given that my experience spans roughly 15 years, major corporations, small and large startups, in both management (director, VP, and C-level roles) and engineering (software, systems) I'm inclined to trust my experience that meetings are generally a work-substitution mechanism and a means of furthering political/social career advancement, and bad PMs (which is, sadly, most of them) are the worst offenders of them all.
- bennyg 14y agoMan, no offense, but you seem extremely short-sighted here. So when you and a couple coworkers are architecting a system, deciding what the pipeline of information flow is going to be, where the security holes may be, stopping any latency or unnecessary operations, and making sure the user knows how to use the damn thing on top of that - and you aren't writing code, but instead communicating with your coworkers - you don't think that's work? How could it not be?