How often do you have skip-level meetings (meet with your manager's manager)?

[cbrunny]

My boss' boss walked past me on the street today. Didn't even notice me. I think my career just died. It wasn't even a busy sidewalk.

 

[KMFJD]

what the fuck is a skip-level meeting?

+1

 

[BarkingGhostar]

How does Jesus have a skip level meeting?

 

[ultimatebob]

My boss' boss walked past me on the street today. Didn't even notice me. I think my career just died. It wasn't even a busy sidewalk.

I almost forgot how weird it was to work at a big company like that. I see our CEO walking down the hallways all the time at the place I work now.

When I worked at IBM, the only big shot I ever met in seven years was a division VP of IBM Global Services. She eventually became the CEO, but back then I wasn't all that impressed.

 

[IronWing]

How does Jesus have a skip level meeting?

He talks to mom, she runs the show.

 

[IronWing]

I was working on a project and got a call from one of the guys who worked for the client. He said that my CEO and his CEO had been shooting the shit at an unrelated event over the weekend and that the project came up. I knew that beyond my supervisor, no one else in the company would have a clue about the project so early Monday morning I shot an email briefing four levels up the ladder explaining the project. Sure as shit, the CEO asked about it later that morning and everybody looked good. Yeah me.

 

[Artdeco]

In my 15 years at this place. Probably around 7 or 8. All of the complaints and nothing ever changes so why bother complaining and making appropriate suggestions anymore.

This, keep your mouth shut unless asked specifically and directly about something. Dept meetings are IQ tests most people fail...

 

[SparkyJJO]

My boss's boss is the owner, but depending on the project I may work with him directly. Typically larger IT stuff goes through the owner directly, then other stuff through the general manager (my main boss).

 

[Possessed Freak]

Every 2 weeks or so (DAA of the campus). About once a month for a skip-skip-meeting (Chancellor/CEO of the campus)... or whatever you want to say. And about once every 2-3 months with a skip-skip-skip meeting (head of IT for the campuses). And... based on my time there, once every 11 years with a skip-skip-skip-skip meeting (that's with the CIO of the university).

 

[Rage187]

Never.

I fill out a quarterly performance survey for him. I always say he is the best; this way his boss leaves him alone and he is cool to us.

 

[Zorba]

True skip-levels just for the sake of meeting/networking with the group, I'd say I've done a few times a year everywhere I've worked. At my current job I talk to my boss's boss at least once a week, though and my boss's boss's boss has a monthly group meeting with his whole org. At my last job I routinely presented in meeting 4 levels above me (just under CEO), but that was for specific work, not just to meet and mingle.

At my last company, pretty much any time we had a skip level, his boss would show up too, so we'd have a skip-skip-level.

 

[RossMAN]

Rarely as they're off-site in another city and in today's high efficiency world, non-essential travel is rarely granted.

However I do work with my skip managers' manager (what's that called?) and see him every day.

 

[Matthiasa]

At my old job there was a period of a few weeks where I was meeting with my boss's boss's boss... Above them was division head than company president.

 

[DisturbedRamm]

i meet with my boss once a month

 

[Crusty]

I don't have a boss?? My company doesn't even have enough 'levels' where that would be possible...

 

[Renob]

Every qtr.

 

[Blanky]

I used to with some frequency because I really reported to both, but then he left and my new manager's manager is worthless, so he's never even in the office. I'm hoping some other business leaders eventually push him out because he's adding no value to anything at all. He also continually calls us all "team" and is always going on about the "team" with such incessant rambling that we just make fun of him for it behind his back.