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Re:Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours by jasonlotito on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:36PM (#6021454)
I've never worked in a very large corporate environment.

> meeting requests

Did you ever reject the request? I'm honestly curious to know what would happen?

Did you ever speak up to your manager about this? His manager?

I guess the real question is, what did you do to fix this?

Re:Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours by rhubarbcustard on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:42PM (#6023040)
I reject every time I think the meeting is not a good use of my time. I always give a reason why I'm rejecting and sometimes that will be challenged but more often and not I don't attend the meeting and people don't get to upset.

A lot of the time people who are booking meetings will request attendance from anyone and everyone who may have a remote link to the agenda, they don't put any thought into whether the meeting will actually be useful to everyone they invite. Another problem is that people, usually project managers, will book meetings at the drop of a hat when a quick two minute chat at someone's desk would suffice - a lot of middle-managers have nothing to do other than attend meetings and they suck everyone else in with them.

Re:Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours by rfnslyr on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @02:43PM (#6021911)
I'd rather be as much as a ghost as possible in the environment lest I get more shit-work to do. Nothing, I set a world record in Temple Run from all the training I've received at these meetings.
Re:Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours by jasonlotito on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @04:43PM (#6022651)
Haha. Well, thanks for the honest answer. Having never been in that environment, I can't say what I'd do. =)