Acting Annoyed During Work Meetings

[Ns1]

I don't miss our Monday after-lunch meetings when I was in IT. Those sucked. Basically it was about 2 hours of the IT manager telling us everything we did wrong the week before. Basically a bash fest. Then there was a section where we had to say what we did all week, basically we had to justify our jobs. It was never enough for him, then he'd bash us more on the individual level. Then move on to the next person.

Actually you know that hitler meme? That was basically our meetings but 2 hours of that.

sounds like a terribad manager.

 

[Red Squirrel]

sounds like a terribad manager.

Oh he was horrible. He was not my real boss, but a customer, and we were on site contractors basically reporting to him. Nobody liked this guy not even our real managers, but it was a big contract so we just had to suck it up pretty much.

Worse thing is this guy is filthy rich, he keeps getting raises because he's the type of person that just knows how to step on people's toes. I just hope karma gets him one day.

 

[Gibsons]

I really can't stand it when people ramble and can't get to the point. Or endless repetition of the same point. It's a waste of time even if the point is important (and it isn't always). I try to just zone out and let it pass, but there are times when it's very difficult.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't have meetings. Joys of a small business.

 

[rudeguy]

No, but I've slammed my head on the table before.

This was in one of my bosses meeting and got a good laugh, so no worries.

Oh our little meetings are a blast. We speak our minds, rag on each other, rag on ourselves. We have fun. The ops man is the best, he always finds a reason to throw something.

 

[olds]

If it's my meeting I am calling them out and embarrassing them in front of everyone.

 

[CPA]

Oh our little meetings are a blast. We speak our minds, rag on each other, rag on ourselves. We have fun. The ops man is the best, he always finds a reason to throw something.

Same here. I have a boss that starts meetings with asking how we're doing personally, may ask about our family or talk about something we did over the weekend, including her. Then goes into "hot topics" and then the meeting basically is half talking serious things, half cracking jokes or ragging on each other. I usually take the brunt because I know it will get laughs and keep people loose. I don't mind people laughing at my expense.

I'm considered a stickler with dress policy, but I know my boss isn't. But one thing I deplore is flip-flops, and we have several women who will throw them on during the day. One day, I started my boss's the meeting with an "Appropriate Footware" questionnaire presentation, ending with a picture of some dude wearing mandles. My peers equally busted out laughing and turned in disgust.

In another meeting, same issue, I came in with no shoes or socks, when everyone was in the room (about 8 of us), I plopped my feet on the table nonchalantly. One director (female) started "Oh Lord, Oh Lord, no, no, no", another whipped out her phone and started taking pics. My boss was laughing her ass off. Mind you, I had just broken my toe a few days earlier, so I had it taped up and by that time the tape was more than a little dirty

 

[DrDoug]

What I hate is the kiss-up who uses meetings to brown nose management. Just about every meeting seems to have one. One place I worked one of the engineers (Mark) spent his meeting time trying to crawl up the ass of a new veep we had recently brought in. The rest of us laughed about it all of the time and one day I came up with a brilliant way to express my opinion on the matter. :biggrin:

The new veep's last name was MacDonald but he liked everyone to call him "Big Mac" (I think it referred to his ego). Once the association hit me I had to write my bit of brilliance on the shithouse wall at work:

"What's between the buns of a Big Mac?"

"Mark Robertson's face"

There's nothing like having over 500 people laughing their ass off all day...lol!

 

[Craig234]

I know a Vice-President who would blatantly pick his nose, it seemed to be a sort of power play, like 'I dare you to say something about it, I can do what I like with you' thing.

Reminds me of President Lyndon Johnson who would use the toilet in front of people with a similar apparent motive, of 'what are you gonna do about it'.

 

[OverVolt]

"Acting Annoyed During Work Meetings"

What if its not acting? :awe: