20-12-2013, 04:54 PM
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Re: Meetings
Originally Posted by spitfire
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Did (does) the company you work for have to many meetings, the one I worked for had serial meeting attenders who did nothing else all day, mind you I got banned in the end, after I couldn't stop tabling Motions.
One place I worked had monthly meetings/'ongoing training' and it used to annoy me when people asked silly questions.
I felt like saying 'if you need to ask that you shouldn't be doing the job' .
20-12-2013, 05:07 PM
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Re: Meetings
Originally Posted by Meg
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.....I can imagine Paul One place I worked had monthly meetings/'ongoing training' and it used to annoy me when people asked silly questions.
I felt like saying 'if you need to ask that you shouldn't be doing the job' .
20-12-2013, 05:17 PM
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I gave the company I worked for a breakdown of the total cost of having a meeting.I included the wage/salary cost of pulling folks off of their job, cost of fuel/fares in attending meetings. Cost of recording minutes, cost of copies of the minutes, refreshments on the day. Cost of time taken up in discussing decisions & action with other employees.
The total costings varied , but were always in 4 figures (i.e. minimum £1000)
& all & all & all
Rather like you Paul, I always had a long list of "important" matters to raise, resulting in me being invited to less & less meetings.
20-12-2013, 06:26 PM
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Re: Meetings
Originally Posted by clumsy
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We had meetings to discuss meetings to discuss other meetings, in fact I spent much of my working life in meetings !
They to had meetings to discuss previous meetings but also meetings to discuss forthcoming meetings!
My Line manager was unavailable so often that decisions were left - so I made them in his absence and I was a supervisor.
Across the board this went on and we got to the stage when all the supervisors complained of the added workload brought about by constantly having to cover - unofficially - for our managers.
The response?
Another meeting! stevmk2
20-12-2013, 06:49 PM
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I agree with Steve - it has (or maybe it's changed since then) a 'disease of meetings'. I've been fortunate that in all the places I've every worked, meetings were called when necessary rather than the compulsory monthly meetings where people are told to think of things to suggest!Some jobs, regular meetings will be important but for the majority, I'm not so sure.
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