1
Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Pet Peeves
« on: May 28, 2024, 08:58:13 PM »I may have said this one before but Work people that set up meetings for simple questions. I feel like zoom has conditioned people to think a full meeting with 8 people is necessary for every conversation. I go to meetings all the time that could have been done over a teams message or a quick call. I had a guy call me this morning 20 minutes before a meeting and he tried to tell me that they needed to move the meeting because so and so couldn't make it. I said, "what did you need"? He just paused and there was awkward silence. I then said, "like, we are talking right now and i'm happy to just answer any questions you have, or we could just wait until another day when more people are around". More awkward silence and he finally goes, yeah, we can just do it now.......Took like 3 minutes.
This is more of a peeve, because everyone feels this way.
I'm not sure that is true according to my calendar that is full of these types of meetings. I normally just go with it, but since the guy called me I figured I would subtly call him out. I chuckled a bit when I said that maybe we should just go ahead and talk now since we were already talking. I also think a lot of it has to do with people just being afraid to do or say anything without their manager's approval. I'm always meeting with different groups of people. Most of them are unnecessary and I could usually just talk to one person and they could pass things along as needed, but whatever. Each person in those groups almost always invites their manager and in some cases their next level, which leads to about 4 other people that have no business on the call, yet they are always there.
Sounds like your company has too many managers without enough to do. I can't imagine inviting someone to a meeting and them inviting their manager plus a level above (and I do not exactly work for a super lean org)