I think anyone who works for a big company, or at least most who do, will have experienced going to meetings that should’ve been e-mails?
Some of those probably shouldn’t have even been that. Like, for instance, yesterday’s all-departments show-and-tell meeting, where literally no departments had anything new to show.
We have some recurring meetings where team members are expected to add discussion topics to a doc beforehand. If nobody does the meeting gets cancelled, it’s great.
Damn, where do you hire your middle management? My company’s management needs those meetings to feel like they have a job.
At least since I work remotely, I can mostly keep working while listening in.
Yep, this is one of those meetings, except the “doc” is an admin’s e-mail address, and we don’t find out what’s on the agenda until we turn up.
I suspect it’s job security for the admin, and it’s half an hour a week I don’t have to break down pallets, so I’m ok with it.