1nbatopshotfan

Sales

Holy Shit - time suck.

I just read this report from Microsoft, it's wel worth a read.

Employees are spending 252% more time in meetings since February 2020. That's brutal and so so many hours have been wasted by people wanting to feel important.

Check it out. I would love to discuss the other findings here.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/great-expectations-making-hybrid-work-work

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Boutdamtime

Politicker

Client Executive

I saw this earlier too. I routinely just don’t show up to meetings that are useless and I encourage everyone to try it out.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Without reading this I can tell you I already agree. I had 52 meetings total last month when I had my one on one yesterday. I was like, wut. 👀

Goomba

Opinionated

Director

My old manager would do this bullshit where we had a morning stand up right into a morning standup with more people.

And this fucker complained about working 19 hour days or something.

First off, any sales managers problems are their problems. Any of their teams problems are also their problems. That’s what they get paid for.

fuzzy

Notable Contributor

CMO (Chief Meme Officer)

I just got out of a 3.5 hour leadership meeting just to do another 1hr condensed version of the same meeting but with the rest of the company…6 more people.

justatopproducer

Politicker

VP OF SALES -US

Hahahah ask them if they want to have a recap 30 minute meeting after the weekend

paddy

WR Officer

Director of Business Development

“You must design workplaces with enough flexibility to support every employee."

MUUUUUSSSSTTTTTT

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

mUsT 🦡🧿

E_Money

Big Shot

💰

Oh yeah and the "triple peak".. what an exciting time to be alive

E_Money

Big Shot

💰

But honestly I do fall into that category lately. I have noticed i don't get shit done after lunch so I just fuck off and take a break and get back at it for a couple hours later that night. Sometimes it is nice.

SADNESSLieutenant

Politicker

Officer of ♥️

just got my entire company to clear my calendar for 2 weeks. shit was ridiculous.

RealPatrickBateman

Politicker

🔪Amateur Butcher🔪

Read the book “Meetings Suck”

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

It's like getting paid to have a meeting subscription..

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

Due to C19 and WFH, everything has turned into a meeting. Calendar, scheduling, etc. you can’t just drop in and have a 5 min conversation now. You have to schedule it 3 days out and invite everyone who may have any involvement or interest.

FoodForSales

Politicker

I have run into people who's entire professional existence is going from meeting to meeting. They wouldn't know what to do with their time if they weren't running to another meeting.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Thank you for this article. That was a great read.

I changed jobs in the middle of the pandemic, and the number of meetings increased - but since my overall workload and productivity went up (as did my pipeline), I'm not sure how much of that is pandemic-related vs "here's how we are successful" meetings. Thank heavens they don't tend to be useless meetings I don't need to be in, which makes me wonder who is getting caught in meetings for meeting sake.

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

A buddy of mine in PE has to do all of his actual work at night and on the weekends because in meetings all day every day.

KB_FarmerType

Opinionated

Strategic Sales

This is really the problem I see all the time.

SunTzu

Opinionated

Legendary Historical Figure

99% of internal stuff is useless bullshit.

Had internal emails muted the entire time I worked at this one firm. Consequently missed all the emails from random specialists reprimanding me about missing meetings.

Managers and directors never once asked me about it, and I left as one of the highest performers on the team. Complete joke.

AnchorPoint

Politicker

Business Coach

The most successful people say "no" a lot.

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