Yesterday, 12:01 AM
Most of these meetings are so pointless - just re-occurring meetings for the sake of meetings. We have project manager's whose whole job description is "Must Make Meetings!" and include everyone under the sun. And oh, this year I've started bailing on meetings when they start getting stupid. The second someone starts to hijack it for their own agenda, that little "Leave" button at the top right gets clicked.
I've implemented some new rules for me:
1. Never start a meeting unless it's your own - meaning I will never be the first one to join on-line. I'll usually wait until at least 4 people have joined that way my mic is auto-muted and that's one less button I need to press.
2. Never join a meeting before its time. Too often I'll see the meeting owner start the meeting 2-3 minutes before its time, I wait until my little meeting reminder pops up and tells me the meeting starts "now". And even then, I might wait 1 or 2 minutes before actually clicking the "Join" button.
3. If I join the meeting and I see more than 40 people present, I nope right on out of there (unless it's a demo and I have something to present)
4. If a meeting is scheduled for 30 minutes, at minute 31 I click the "Leave" button whether things have wrapped or not.
5. I will decline all meeting requests that are scheduled less than 4 hours in advanced. That's bullshit. At least one day notice. The most infuriating ones are from the idiots who are practically slaves to the company and will be on-line at 3am and schedule a meeting for 9am. Or the ones that schedule a meeting for 1pm and sent it at 12:30pm during lunch. Yeah, I'm not going to those.
6. If the meeting presenter doesn't show up within 5 minutes of their meeting, I'm pushing the "Leave" button.
7. While in a meeting I will remain focused on it and will not do side work. Don't message me to look something up that's not germane to the meeting because I will just ignore you until after the meeting (or I push the Leave button - whichever comes first).
I've implemented some new rules for me:
1. Never start a meeting unless it's your own - meaning I will never be the first one to join on-line. I'll usually wait until at least 4 people have joined that way my mic is auto-muted and that's one less button I need to press.
2. Never join a meeting before its time. Too often I'll see the meeting owner start the meeting 2-3 minutes before its time, I wait until my little meeting reminder pops up and tells me the meeting starts "now". And even then, I might wait 1 or 2 minutes before actually clicking the "Join" button.
3. If I join the meeting and I see more than 40 people present, I nope right on out of there (unless it's a demo and I have something to present)
4. If a meeting is scheduled for 30 minutes, at minute 31 I click the "Leave" button whether things have wrapped or not.
5. I will decline all meeting requests that are scheduled less than 4 hours in advanced. That's bullshit. At least one day notice. The most infuriating ones are from the idiots who are practically slaves to the company and will be on-line at 3am and schedule a meeting for 9am. Or the ones that schedule a meeting for 1pm and sent it at 12:30pm during lunch. Yeah, I'm not going to those.
6. If the meeting presenter doesn't show up within 5 minutes of their meeting, I'm pushing the "Leave" button.
7. While in a meeting I will remain focused on it and will not do side work. Don't message me to look something up that's not germane to the meeting because I will just ignore you until after the meeting (or I push the Leave button - whichever comes first).