Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Meeting...

Do you like meetings?

I don't like meetings... cos, for me, it's a waste of time. People talk about something (at least to the meeting I've been to)... but usually presiding person is only reading from a piece paper that has also been distributed to the attendees.. that's it. So if reading papers only, why we need to spend time meeting..Just give us the paper!! we will read it by ourselves..!! ( I am always saying that in my mind. ) We have so much work to do everyday..no one wants to waste time for it except bosses. You know...they LOVE meetings.. they do these a lot, it seems to me just to kill THEIR time.. But they don't realize that these meetings don't really create or improve anything at all.

Unfortunately.. I am in charge of one of these meetings every Friday ...It's an Acctg Dept Weekly Scheduled Meeting.. I really don't want to do it.. So usually I try to finish ASAP... Before the meeting, I already asked people what their schedule will be for the coming week.. then I just fill in the agenda. My time budget for this is 5 min.. but we usually end up spending 15 min.. cos I still try to make it a fun weekly meeting.. hahaha... I can tell from the others that they are relieved that I make this Friday meeting short as everyone has other things to do. Everyone here is just buried with work and our top management doesn't seem to care about it. I know ..we sometimes need a meeting and it's better to talk face to face, that's why it's called " MEETING ". The meeting that bosses like is just useless "Reading" or "Announcements" ;-) . I wish they'd just meet by themselves and not include us in it.

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