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[_33]

All meetings are pointless.  If you have more than 1 meeting in a day you should quit your job.

[star seed 7]

i have one a month, max

[420seriouscat69]

Several of those meetings shouldn't involve you, if I have a good handle on your job function that is.

Actually, they all do. I have two territories, so I report to both regional directors, my weekly manager meeting, my COO wants my thoughts on how the new regional directors are doing (Are they interviewing my candidates in a timely manner), expansion involves me, because we're opening practices in chicago now and I need the timeline on when I need to have 4 doctors in these practices. The associate program is knew and my colleague and I need to know the logistics of it to recruit for it. HR quartly meeting is what it is. They lump recruiting in with the HR teams. Regional team meeting is so all of the hr people have the doctors hr ready, so they need updates on start dates, credentialing, etc.

^^^ A lot of borrowing stuff, but ya.

[CNS]

If you are really integral enough to be needed in all those meetings, you should go demand a raise right now.

[_33]

Several of those meetings shouldn't involve you, if I have a good handle on your job function that is.

Actually, they all do. I have two territories, so I report to both regional directors, my weekly manager meeting, my COO wants my thoughts on how the new regional directors are doing (Are they interviewing my candidates in a timely manner), expansion involves me, because we're opening practices in chicago now and I need the timeline on when I need to have 4 doctors in these practices. The associate program is knew and my colleague and I need to know the logistics of it to recruit for it. HR quartly meeting is what it is. They lump recruiting in with the HR teams. Regional team meeting is so all of the hr people have the doctors hr ready, so they need updates on start dates, credentialing, etc.

^^^ A lot of borrowing stuff, but ya.

All those meetings could be handled over email in a matter of minutes.

[420seriouscat69]

If you are really integral enough to be needed in all those meetings, you should go demand a raise right now.

I just got one. 

[meow meow]

there it is

[Emo EMAW]

I had 9 in one day a few weeks ago.  rough ridin' 9. 

Morning overview of current status and crap getting done today.
Update from ops on where are with crap.
More detailed review/escalation meeting on a project by project basis.
Mid-day overview of current status and crap getting done today.
Meeting on product development projects.
Kick-off meeting on new project.
Meeting for update specific to one large project.
Meeting with ops to go over large projects.
End of day overview of crap that got done today.

[_33]

Seems like the morning meeting of crap getting done that day could have just been an email that read-

Good morning, nothing will be getting done today because we have 9 meetings.

[Mrs. Gooch]

What was the duration of each meeting? Were you allowed bathroom breaks?

[420seriouscat69]

I found my 4th meeting today pretty lol/ironic when she was telling me I need to really push my pipeline in Indianapolis right now and I was like this inside my head: "THAT'S WHY I NEED TO BE AT MY DESK RIGHT NOW, NOT THIS RELAY OF MEETINGS! 

[420seriouscat69]

1 Regional Director meeting for region 1--------15 minutes
2 weekly one-on-one meeting with my manager---------45 minutes
3 Regional Director meeting for region 3-------30 minutes
4 Meeting with my COO------20 minutes
5 Exec meeting to discuss new associate position for our doctors------ 25 minutes
6. HR quarterly meeting-------30 minutes
7. Regional team meeting to discuss what's going on in each department----5 minutes
8. Expansion meeting---------TBD

 

Of course to the bathroom break question

[Emo EMAW]

Seems like the morning meeting of crap getting done that day could have just been an email that read-

Good morning, nothing will be getting done today because we have 9 meetings.

It's really a matter of the whole people in the canoe without paddles thing. 

[The Big Train]

Like 4 is my max but it doesn't happen very often.  I actually wish I could have more sometimes instead of email chains that replace them

[Mrs. Gooch]

The problem at my work is not so many meetings, but long meetings. Like they are scheduled to be an hour but end up lasting 2-3 hours sometimes.

[ChiComCat]

I hate worthless meetings.  I can waste my own time, thank you very much.

[puniraptor]

Is a 1 on 1 a meeting?

[Gooch]

Is a 1 on 1 a meeting?

Did you leave your desk/office? Was this also pre-planned or more impromptu?

[The Big Train]

The problem at my work is not so many meetings, but long meetings. Like they are scheduled to be an hour but end up lasting 2-3 hours sometimes.

I sometimes have 2 hour long meetings but they are usually scheduled for 2 hours.  Most of them need 2 hours also.

[420seriouscat69]

Is a 1 on 1 a meeting?

Did you leave your desk/office? Was this also pre-planned or more impromptu?

Yup. Confirmed. It's a meeting.

[kim carnes]

Wacky, what company do u work for?

[puniraptor]

O crap kim is a dentist!

[Brock Landers]

I had 9 in one day a few weeks ago.  rough ridin' 9. 

Morning overview of current status and crap getting done today.
Update from ops on where are with crap.
More detailed review/escalation meeting on a project by project basis.
Mid-day overview of current status and crap getting done today.
Meeting on product development projects.
Kick-off meeting on new project.
Meeting for update specific to one large project.
Meeting with ops to go over large projects.
End of day overview of crap that got done today.

These are simply ridiculous.  Here's a novel concept:  Doing crap instead of talking about doing crap.

[The Big Train]

Having more than one scrum per project a day seems very wasteful

[chum1]

Who is trying the most to sound impotant here?