Comments on: The Five Stages of My Meetings http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/ a Daniel Howell blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:38:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: michelle http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-904 michelle Sat, 16 May 2009 11:23:46 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-904 OMG I was in a meeting just this week where they calculated the cost of just this set of meetings was $20,000 a month. And yet they still have them ?!?!?!??! OMG I was in a meeting just this week where they calculated the cost of just this set of meetings was $20,000 a month. And yet they still have them ?!?!?!??!

]]> By: Sanah http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-900 Sanah Fri, 15 May 2009 13:23:49 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-900 I often wish I could on invent a digital meeting cost display that gets mounted on the wall next to the clock: it's purpose is to calculate the salary cost of a meeting & to display the running total after 10 minutes. Maybe add a chip to the id badge of every participant, so the salary data could be easily transmitted. Program it to calculate the sum of the wage x minutesfor every participant. Imagine seeing those numbers spin around the dial! My guess is that it would encourage brevity, cut down on stupid questions & we wouldn't have to worry about the sound of our keyboards. No guarantees that the bullshit bingo will be a thing of the past, though. I often wish I could on invent a digital meeting cost display
that gets mounted on the wall next to the clock: it’s purpose
is to calculate the salary cost of a meeting & to display the
running total after 10 minutes. Maybe add a chip to the id
badge of every participant, so the salary data could be
easily transmitted. Program it to calculate the sum of the
wage x minutesfor every participant. Imagine seeing those
numbers spin around the dial! My guess is that it would
encourage brevity, cut down on stupid questions & we
wouldn’t have to worry about the sound of our
keyboards. No guarantees that the bullshit bingo will
be a thing of the past, though.

]]> By: May http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-895 May Thu, 14 May 2009 17:03:24 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-895 Well, there are times when meetings can be entertaining. For example, hells corp-my former work place-held a crap load of meetings that didnt have any point to them....I would know...I had to play records keeper every damn time we had one >.=) the second...deals with INS and it's ICE officials after a raid...and someone (*coughcough*) saying that it was about time they did said raid.... Well, there are times when meetings can be entertaining. For example, hells corp-my former work place-held a crap load of meetings that didnt have any point to them….I would know…I had to play records keeper every damn time we had one >.=)

the second…deals with INS and it’s ICE officials after a raid…and someone (*coughcough*) saying that it was about time they did said raid….

]]> By: Wingscribe http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-894 Wingscribe Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:15 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-894 I feel you on so many of your comments...but would like to add a couple: 1. The meeting that drones on for hours, then ends...no one has talked to you, nothing on the Big Screen has had a thing to do with your work..."why was I here?" 2. Dirty Laundry - two folks just start to get into it on some small point, and it quickly becomes obvious to everyone else in the room, with a growing sense of unease, that these two just don't like each other and will fight like cats and dogs on the smallest thing - just because they can... Oh well, dinner and a show, right? I feel you on so many of your comments…but would like to add a couple:

1. The meeting that drones on for hours, then ends…no one has talked to you, nothing on the Big Screen has had a thing to do with your work…”why was I here?”

2. Dirty Laundry – two folks just start to get into it on some small point, and it quickly becomes obvious to everyone else in the room, with a growing sense of unease, that these two just don’t like each other and will fight like cats and dogs on the smallest thing – just because they can…

Oh well, dinner and a show, right?

]]> By: Saraza http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-892 Saraza Thu, 14 May 2009 01:15:09 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-892 hahaha were you at least blogging during the meeting? hahaha were you at least blogging during the meeting?

]]> By: sardaukar http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-889 sardaukar Wed, 13 May 2009 19:43:21 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-889 Ahahaha, wow. Do NOT - and I can't stress the negative enough - take a job in academia. Our meetings are competitive events and should be recognized as such by the NCAA as a sport. If there were any justice, I'd be able to recruit for my meeting minions. I would give their grandmothers free Hummers and use my discretionary budget to pay their mortgages. I would be able to hand-pick my prospects and redshirt them until they're ready for the upper-management big time. That would be the sauce, but OH NO. Ahahaha, wow.

Do NOT – and I can’t stress the negative enough – take a job in academia. Our meetings are competitive events and should be recognized as such by the NCAA as a sport. If there were any justice, I’d be able to recruit for my meeting minions. I would give their grandmothers free Hummers and use my discretionary budget to pay their mortgages. I would be able to hand-pick my prospects and redshirt them until they’re ready for the upper-management big time. That would be the sauce, but OH NO.

]]> By: Jason R. Peters http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-887 Jason R. Peters Wed, 13 May 2009 16:23:25 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-887 Wow, thanks for pointing out BS Bingo. I'm the conference room guy at my workplace and that is hilarious. Wow, thanks for pointing out BS Bingo. I’m the conference room guy at my workplace and that is hilarious.

]]> By: Karl Gallagher http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-886 Karl Gallagher Wed, 13 May 2009 16:01:17 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-886 I remember a 2nd LT complaining that he was so fed up with Powerpoint he was going to get out and become a contractor. Oh, how this Lockheed employee laughed! I remember a 2nd LT complaining that he was so fed up with Powerpoint he was going to get out and become a contractor. Oh, how this Lockheed employee laughed!

]]> By: Rob http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-885 Rob Wed, 13 May 2009 15:59:56 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-885 Just wait... At least they're not using buzzwords like they're going out of style. If I hear Synergy in a meeting one more time... I may just destroy the Internet! :) Just wait… At least they’re not using buzzwords like they’re going out of style.

If I hear Synergy in a meeting one more time… I may just destroy the Internet! :)

]]> By: Kattrinsaa http://www.dphowell.com/2009/05/12/the-five-stages-of-my-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-883 Kattrinsaa Wed, 13 May 2009 14:46:40 +0000 http://www.dphowell.com/?p=144#comment-883 saphia, you remind me of some of the BOFH archives where the redundant rs232 (now would be cat5/5e/6) cabling to the office has excellent aural capabilities. (they wired a mic in the spare port) saphia, you remind me of some of the BOFH archives where the redundant rs232 (now would be cat5/5e/6) cabling to the office has excellent aural capabilities.
(they wired a mic in the spare port)

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