Why are managers obsessed about 'meetings'?

@thebigk • Oct 24, 2024

Oct 24, 2024

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My decision to quit IT was taken during a meeting that I badly wanted to escape. The managers, I've noticed, are unnaturally obsessed about conducting meetings - which 99% of the times are a pure waste of time of everyone involved. I've even experienced that out of every 1 hour spent in such 'meetings', the 'real work / task / issues' were discussed for not more than 10 or max 15 minutes. Everything else, usually is pure chit-chat.

Yet, everyone wastes so much time in meetings. Can this be fixed?

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Rupam Das

@rupam-das-wW5CvN • Feb 11, 2013

Yes! But who wants to quit it? It gives you billing hour for the time you waste on nothing?

If anybody is that badly pissed off, you know he would be a Big-K or Rupam somewhere down the line.
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Feb 11, 2013

#-Link-Snipped-# - You didn't get my point. I'm saying if you're going to get billed anyways - why bother wasting time 'together'? I had once suggested that all meetings should be conducted with everyone 'standing' so that the meeting gets over in 10 minutes and everyone goes back to work - or killing time (officially).

Maybe the 'managers' want to 'show' their subordinates that they are in 'control' and remind everyone about their 'authority'.

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Ramani Aswath

@ramani-VR4O43 • Feb 11, 2013

In my previous assignment at Trivandrum I was a scientist in myindividual capacity, head of an academic department and also head of the lab. Wearing three hats (preference to the first) was trying. I told everyone that if they wanted to meet they can catch me wherever I was on the 26 acre campus on a hill with a maximum height difference of about 200 feet.
Meeting while climbing up or down did not suit many. Only really important things came my way. In my own department daily we had a 10 minute sunrise and sunset meeting in the workplace. All standing.
Being an engineer without MBA has advantages.
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Anoop Kumar

@anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • Feb 11, 2013

The_Big_K
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Anand Tamariya

@anand-tamariya-DnfjEX • Mar 3, 2013

Managers are obsessed about meeting because that's the only way to justify their day!!! Unlike developers, they can't say they fixed x number of defects or finished a module!!
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