Why do people bring notepads and pens to meetings

[Humpy]

Why do people bring notepads and pens to meetings?

Because I told them to.

 

[Howard]

Do you work at McDonald's?

 

[ch33zw1z]

Keeps you awake.

 

[Lonyo]

"[OP], make sure to call [Ops] and ask them why the test trade for 1mm JPY/AUD didn't get reported to [EU Regulatory Body]. It's possible we haven't set up one of the CP accounts since it's a multi-payment bundle. You can contact [Ops mgr] directly if no one responds. Just make sure you don't wait because London is 5 hours ahead of us so you should contact them right after this meeting."

How do you perform this action item without waiting for the minutes of the meeting especially when the minutes probably won't have this action item in them?

the doesn't have areal job. This was written incursive with windows 8 handwriting recognition

 

[Gintaras]

I take notes on my electronic device.

What Age do you live in?
Don't have nano chip in your body yet?

 

[Red Squirrel]

To look more important, and interested. But most importantly, for making doodles.

I don't miss being in IT. Man those soapbox meetings sucked. Every Monday afternoon, too. Mondays are already bad enough, because it's Monday, yet they had to throw in this meeting, which was essentially the IT manager telling us one by one all the things we did wrong the week before and basically we had to justify our job. No matter what you did, it should have been done faster and there's no way that's all we did all week. There was no actual accomplishments made at those meetings. I always dreaded going at those meetings. When I took a floater or day off, or had to book an appointment I always tried to take Mondays.

 

[xSauronx]

I have not taken notes in a meeting in a long time unless a training packet is provided. So why do people take a notepad for notes to meetings only to write something done and never reference it in the future.

i want to know why IT guys take notepads....its 2013, get with the program. my boss gave everyone an iPad for christmas last year, i sold mine, bought an android tablet, and sync notes from my phone, laptop and tablet with web services all the time so i have all of my information everywhere whenever i need it.

/hates paper. hate hate hate.

 

[Ns1]

i want to know why IT guys take notepads....its 2013, get with the program. my boss gave everyone an iPad for christmas last year, i sold mine, bought an android tablet, and sync notes from my phone, laptop and tablet with web services all the time so i have all of my information everywhere whenever i need it.

/hates paper. hate hate hate.

I tried bringing a tablet to the meeting room, and for a while I simply recorded meetings...nothing was as fast as paper + pen.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If I wanted to write stuff down I'd bring a laptop. Keyboard > Pen for speed. Tablet is neat if you want to show something to people as it's easier to pass it around than a laptop that will probably have to be plugged in half way through the meeting, but for typing stuff nothing beats a keyboard.

 

[Slew Foot]

The head of our old department used to always bring a big legal sized notepad to all of the meetings. At the end of the meeting, it would be full of random sized circles

 

[Jeff7]

I bring along my usual notepad and a pencil. Sometimes there are things I need to remember to do after meetings, either because of the meeting, or in spite of it.


Though I'm still waiting until there's a cheap 11x17" tablet on the market, with some manner of decent virtual notepad on it. Pencil and paper....bleh, paper. So inefficient.

 

[wirednuts]

or....

Acting like you are taking notes.




Either way, it's important to do one of the two when in the business world of acting like you are paying attention (or give a flying shit)

this.

 

[wirednuts]

To look more important, and interested. But most importantly, for making doodles.

I don't miss being in IT. Man those soapbox meetings sucked. Every Monday afternoon, too. Mondays are already bad enough, because it's Monday, yet they had to throw in this meeting, which was essentially the IT manager telling us one by one all the things we did wrong the week before and basically we had to justify our job. No matter what you did, it should have been done faster and there's no way that's all we did all week. There was no actual accomplishments made at those meetings. I always dreaded going at those meetings. When I took a floater or day off, or had to book an appointment I always tried to take Mondays.

when will companies realize a happy worker is a productive worker? and if they need someone to do a job without supervision, then quit asking them to explain every minute of their employment.

 

[grohl]

I remember stuff better when I write it down.

Also: crossword

 

[CZroe]

I take it just in case and so that I can show that I am interested and differentiate myself from lower-performing subjects, like the OP.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I think you can be active in the meeting for others who want your knowledge in which case you do not need to take notes either.

How does being engaged in the meeting require one to take less notes? If anything the opposite would make more sense.

btw

 

[irishScott]

Because my pen is awesome and fun to write with.

 

[Red Storm]

What Age do you live in?
Don't have nano chip in your body yet?

No. 🙁

 

[CZroe]

I take it just in case and so that I can show that I am interested and differentiate myself from lower-performing subjects, like the OP.

Also, my smartphone didn't come with a notes app and they'd think I was playing a game (Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G).

 

[alkemyst]

cuz some people actually reference stuff from meetings?

QFT, OP must work as a bag boy.

 

[gorcorps]

I take notes on a tablet which is synced on the intranet. My notes are then automatically browseable on my desktop, and able to be searched like any other electronic document. There's been more than one instance that something came up down the road that my notes helped answer.

 

[Rifter]

To sketch giant pictures of my wang.

 

[bigrash]

I always bring a notepad to meetings. When I get bored, I start drawing.

 

[Wyndru]

My coworker has one of these, she says she likes it.

I prefer just bringing a small notebook or a steno pad and a pen.

I need to because I could never remember the punchlist of items that I need to do after I leave the meeting.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Why do people go to meetings without a pen and paper, claim they "got all of it" anyway, and then say "Oh I didn't hear that part" when later they fuck something up that was mentioned in the meeting?