Commander of Awesome;1868604 wrote:Meetings. Fucking christ, meetings. Any meetings involving more than 3 other ppl I find useless.

Lord, a couple years ago, I had a supervisor who loved meetings, whether they be in-person group ones or via the phone. Dipshit couldn't organize his thoughts to save his life, so every fucking time, it was an hour of him rambling inanely. When he left, I was so fucking happy.

justincredible;1868391 wrote:At my current job, not much, if anything.

Ok, found something. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Our department has nothing to do with financials but I still have to deal with all of that regulatory junk since I work for a publicly traded company.

justincredible;1868676 wrote:Ok, found something. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Our department has nothing to do with financials but I still have to deal with all of that regulatory junk since I work for a publicly traded company.

I cursed SOX compliance daily my last few years on the job. HQ kept throwing new initiatives at us each month under that guise, even though there's no way it was remotely connected.

justincredible;1868676 wrote:Ok, found something. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Our department has nothing to do with financials but I still have to deal with all of that regulatory junk since I work for a publicly traded company.

The audit firms have gotten really bad about SOX compliance in the last 3 years. Every little thing is an issue, and they come for 3 weeks each year and ask the same questions every time. Ironically, from 09-2014 I worked in audit for a Big 4 firm and then in the SOX group at my current company for a year. It has definitely gotten worse recently.

Commander of Awesome;1868604 wrote:Meetings. Fucking christ, meetings. Any meetings involving more than 3 other ppl I find useless.

Last place I worked, would spend 2 hours a day in meetings with about 20+ in each meeting.

Then, in the meeting that took over an hour, they would complain that work wasn't getting done on time.

Let's see, you estimate a job will take a person say, 80 hours, which is 2 weeks. You "only" give them 2 weeks to do it, but then you eat up 20 of his 80 hours in dumb meetings.

Yeah, I am not there no more, couldn't take the "we need to have a meeting to plan our meeting"

Commander of Awesome;1868604 wrote:Meetings. Fucking christ, meetings. Any meetings involving more than 3 other ppl I find useless.

Yes!

A few years back, I worked for a well-known Akron-based company where the meetings got so bad that we ... I shit you not ... had a meeting to address how we could cut down on the number of meetings.

O-Trap;1868692 wrote:Yes!

A few years back, I worked for a well-known Akron-based company where the meetings got so bad that we ... I shit you not ... had a meeting to address how we could cut down on the number of meetings.

If anyone below mid-management is regularly sucked into meetings, you've got problems. First-line managers and their teams don't need to be in the vast majority of those meetings. And those first-line managers don't really need team meetings because they work and talk with you daily (presumably).

What usually ends up happening, is your manager's boss doesn't know how the sausage is made, so he drags in your boss to the meeting...but he doesn't know how the sausage is made, either, so he drags you into it. Very little sausage ends up being made.

Coworkers

ernest_t_bass;1868719 wrote:Coworkers

They get tiring, too. We have a small office and two of them, when in there together, will fucking talk all day. One isn't bad on her own; her buddy is the most insufferable person on Earth. Any fucking thought entering her head has to be vocalized. Reads news headlines out loud constantly. Has a bitch-feud with someone in the company who she'll talk about every fucking day. If she died, I wouldn't attend her funeral -- I'd take the day off just to celebrate the fact that she finally left my company for good and won't be coming back like she has 3 times!

gut;1868698 wrote:If anyone below mid-management is regularly sucked into meetings, you've got problems. First-line managers and their teams don't need to be in the vast majority of those meetings. And those first-line managers don't really need team meetings because they work and talk with you daily (presumably).

What usually ends up happening, is your manager's boss doesn't know how the sausage is made, so he drags in your boss to the meeting...but he doesn't know how the sausage is made, either, so he drags you into it. Very little sausage ends up being made.

Agreed.

Not only were first-level managers in these meetings, but non-management members of teams were. It was nuts, and ridiculously unproductive.

We periodically have events that have been dubbed "mandatory fun".


Only one of the two words is accurate.

Most recent was ultimate Frisbee.
At 5am.
On a Saturday.

thavoice;1868735 wrote:We periodically have events that have been dubbed "mandatory fun".


Only one of the two words is accurate.

Most recent was ultimate Frisbee.
At 5am.
On a Saturday.

Let's see.

Ultimate Frisbee: Super fucking fun!!!!!!

5 a.m.: Not fun at all.

5 a.m. Saturday morning: Fuck off and die you evil piece of shit.

So, I agree.

Heretic;1868737 wrote:Let's see.

Ultimate Frisbee: Super fucking fun!!!!!!

5 a.m.: Not fun at all.

5 a.m. Saturday morning: Fuck off and die you evil piece of shit.

So, I agree.[/QUOTE]


I concur.

It is fun but when there is like 30 per side playing at the same time...not so much.

and at those times....yeah.

Few weeks ago it was dodgeball.

Again, a blast, but not at 5am on a Saturday!


My other job the most annoying thing, and I guess this goes to everything, is people just not owning up to a mistake. We all make 'em, just own it instead of giving BS excuses!