Jake Riffice

Sales Ops

I Hate Meetings

Why do people feel the need to schedule meetings all the time?

I find myself many times getting off a 30 min call thinking "That could have been a Slack message...."

Is it power people need to feel or do they have a lack of communication skills?

Am I alone in this thought?

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Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

In many companies (especially remote), it’s a sin for an Exec / Manager to have an empty calendar. So they justify their role and existence (and that venti paycheck) by putting in useless meetings.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Or "ride alongs" that are completely unnecessary 😎

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

Because without excessive meetings it’s impossible to be an effective, independent leader who is comfortable in a highly collaborative, ambiguous, fast-paced, inclusive, team-cultured, revenue focused, startup environment. So, don’t be late.

SaaSsy

Politicker

😂👏🏼😂

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

100% agree with Gasty. It’s a way of pretending how busy you are. More busy = more productive (assumption). I have so many people in my company putting their calendar in private mode and they are booked 8 hours for the whole month 😂

Fenderbaum

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Retired Choirboy🪕

Filth

Politicker

Live Filthy or Die Clean

My CRO has been stopping other departments from wrapping the revenue team in meetings, especially if no agenda posted, and god does it feel good to see those things get scrubbed from the calendar.

Teams chat > meeting unless technical as hell lol.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Power move: morning coffee and a cold stare.

Maximas

Tycoon

Senior Sales Executive

Yeah, agree.
Tends to be too repetitive in discussed topics!
Maybe the best part of it IMO in a sh** day full of customer service calls with little to no sales ones that they burn time till my shift ends, instead of just having back to back calls in rush hours:)

FinanceEngineer

Politicker

Sr Director, sales and partnerships

There are meetings that can be slack messages. Honestly, a 5 minute phone call could replace an hour of frustration and back and forth on slack. So it depends

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

this is because people got used to scheduling mtgs during covid instead of stopping by people's desks for 5min.

FoodForSales

Politicker

too many people depend on meetings to create the value needed to justify their job

WhollyMan

Valued Contributor

Renewal Sales Specialist

Time = money. Simple principle, especially in sales. I try to limit the number of meetings on my calendar (non-customer meetings) and focus on the activities that actually make money (The Pareto principle).

I think to answer your question people lack confidence in their skills and decision-making ability so they book a bunch of non-sense meetings so they can be assured "everyone is on the same page". Even though now days during those meetings that have nothing to do with you, everyone is on mute with camera off.

It's a problem.

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Jake Riffice

I Hate Meetings

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