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Meetings are Bad For You
19061969 writes "Though this is obvious to most of us, your PHB's might benefit from knowing that meetings are bad for you. Two psychologists have found evidence that the number of and the time spent in meetings has a detrimental effect on mood. "...a general relationship between meeting load and the employee's level of fatigue and subjective workload was found", write the authors after conducting a diary study. Perhaps we should be more understanding with our moody bosses?"
Memo from your PHB
We need to have a meeting to discuss these findings!
Oh no... it's the future.
In other news, the sky is blue.
Curb CO2 emissions: Kill yourself today!
I'm not sure I understand the findings. I know I'm always pleased when my boss "delegates" his full workload to me at a meeting.
This guy's the limit!
Am I the only one that found this whole statement funny? I would think that they would release the paper to trade magazines and such to get their findings out, rather than waste time with meetings about how meetings are bad. That sounds like shooting yourself in the foot to me.
Something needs to be done about meetings... Perhaps more laws, counselling, medication... for the children.
I suggest you read Slashdot
I read in Reader's Digest many years ago about a plant manager who loathed meetings. A worker was injured on the job, which prompted a series of long "safety meetings." This propmpted the manager to post signs throughout the plant that read:
Work Safely! Accidents cause Meetings!
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Come to think of it .. ..A hunt for the ultimate Prey .. MAN
Do you think that "Meeting related stress and depression" would get me off with diminished responsibility , if i perform a killing spree.
If so , I am going to invite the marketing department on a hunting trip
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
I use to have this at my old job that was posted. Some of the high-ups were not impressed.
Are you Lonely ?
Don't like working on your own ? Hate Making Decisions ?
Then Call a Meeting !!!!
YOU CAN...
SEE people
DRAW Flowcharts
FEEL Important
IMPRESS your collegues
FORM subcommittees
MAKE meaningless recommendations
All on Company Time
MEETINGS
The pratical alternative to work.
There is something disturbing about this paragraph from the article:
Rogelberg has delivered this insight in a talk called "Meetings and More Meetings," which he presented to a meeting at the University of Sheffield. He also does a talk called "Not Another Meeting!", which has been well received at two meetings in North Carolina.
A thoughtful, intelligent, insightful post.
Therefore, you CAN'T be a salesman.
Except for the part about liking meetings. Every sales guy I've worked with loves meetings. They want to have meetings for everything - except when they're booking my time on conference calls.
The novice replied: "Branches fall from above and strike my head. Roots from below come up from the ground and try to strangle. The fruit the tree produces is rotten to the core. I tried to climb it once but the vulture in the branches wouldn't let me pass as I wasn't part of his species."
;) )
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(I do like the original story though...
Gak! One of them has breeched the outer perimeter and is posting on Slashdot.
Rally the forces, we must stop the incursion of salesmen onto technical forums before the damage is too great.
I sense a great tremor in the force.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Rally the forces, we must stop the incursion of salesmen onto technical forums before the damage is too great.
An example of two statements with no relation to each other.
http://outcampaign.org/