Got the kindle version on Amazon recently and Just finished reading it yesterday. Hilarious and important read! However, you need to be a basic level of smart to begin with BEFORE you read this book, to know when you’re actually ALLOWED to follow her tips. Many are obvious jokes but if you don’t realize it and practice it at work, it could get you into deep trouble so watch out!
My favorite meetings were the financial meetings where we all got to hear how the company was extremely, extremely successful. So successful we bought our CEO his third mansion. We made $13 to $17 per hour, depending entirely upon tenure with zero consideration for merit or verifiable cost savings. Of course, this was five to ten years ago. Isn’t that nice? The American Dream. It’s nice.
When I was working (I am retired) meetings were the bane of my existence. It seemed like 70% of the meetings I had to attend didn’t really require my attendance and, like this video said, were a soul crushing waste of time. I actually got called into HR and threatened with being written up because of my poor attitude in meetings. So what I did instead was to bring some of my routine work tasks, like signing Accounts Payable checks, into meetings that I really didn’t need to attend - at least I was able to get something productive accomplished. What I used to do at one company I worked for (a large bank in downtown Los Angeles) is when I was in a meeting that I didn’t need to be in is after about 20 minutes I just got up and went back to my desk. I probably did this 6 or 7 times and no one ever caught on to what I was doing because my presence in the meetings was unnecessary.
Seems like the logical thing to do would have been to ask if you can skip the meeting so you can get your work done, my guess is that never even occurred to them, a lot of people just go through the motions. I did that after a year at my job with a particular meeting, and my employer is pretty casual and they agreed but not everyone would.
@@sarahberkner : Believe me I tried but especially at my last employer before I retired they were really into meetings, the vast majority of which were a complete waste of time. In fact that’s what got me called into HR: I had tried to get out of too many meetings and was told by our HR Director that if I am asked to be in a meeting it is because it was deemed that my presence was required and I was not to question it. This issue with meetings actually found its way onto one of my performance reviews which I resented. I was getting close to retiring anyway so after the aforementioned review I turned in my resignation.
They made a Venn diagram in the meeting I was in the other day, and it was fine but I don't think it was a Venn diagram because there wasn't any overlap, it ended up just being four circles.
Got the kindle version on Amazon recently and Just finished reading it yesterday. Hilarious and important read! However, you need to be a basic level of smart to begin with BEFORE you read this book, to know when you’re actually ALLOWED to follow her tips. Many are obvious jokes but if you don’t realize it and practice it at work, it could get you into deep trouble so watch out!
This is amazing.
My favorite meetings were the financial meetings where we all got to hear how the company was extremely, extremely successful. So successful we bought our CEO his third mansion. We made $13 to $17 per hour, depending entirely upon tenure with zero consideration for merit or verifiable cost savings. Of course, this was five to ten years ago. Isn’t that nice? The American Dream. It’s nice.
This is needed now more than ever!!!!!
When I was working (I am retired) meetings were the bane of my existence. It seemed like 70% of the meetings I had to attend didn’t really require my attendance and, like this video said, were a soul crushing waste of time.
I actually got called into HR and threatened with being written up because of my poor attitude in meetings. So what I did instead was to bring some of my routine work tasks, like signing Accounts Payable checks, into meetings that I really didn’t need to attend - at least I was able to get something productive accomplished.
What I used to do at one company I worked for (a large bank in downtown Los Angeles) is when I was in a meeting that I didn’t need to be in is after about 20 minutes I just got up and went back to my desk. I probably did this 6 or 7 times and no one ever caught on to what I was doing because my presence in the meetings was unnecessary.
Seems like the logical thing to do would have been to ask if you can skip the meeting so you can get your work done, my guess is that never even occurred to them, a lot of people just go through the motions.
I did that after a year at my job with a particular meeting, and my employer is pretty casual and they agreed but not everyone would.
@@sarahberkner : Believe me I tried but especially at my last employer before I retired they were really into meetings, the vast majority of which were a complete waste of time.
In fact that’s what got me called into HR: I had tried to get out of too many meetings and was told by our HR Director that if I am asked to be in a meeting it is because it was deemed that my presence was required and I was not to question it.
This issue with meetings actually found its way onto one of my performance reviews which I resented. I was getting close to retiring anyway so after the aforementioned review I turned in my resignation.
They made a Venn diagram in the meeting I was in the other day, and it was fine but I don't think it was a Venn diagram because there wasn't any overlap, it ended up just being four circles.
So let's take a step back here, perhaps a Venn Diagram can help us visualize and synergize
It’s amazing how smart people are! Wow! Imagine just how much we could accomplish if Santa Clause was real. smh
Happy kids :)
"best practices" dying rn
Wearing a bow tie signals to me that the host is trying too hard to look smart. LOL
Yeah, that guy needs all the help he can get!
Bow ties are cool! Lol
@@sarahberkner It depends who's wearing 'em.
NOT SARAH COOPER