lullabelle

Ohmigod, you do the song lyric thing too! Ideally you need a partner in crime though.

That has helped me though many a long day...

The Dean

Idea for a competition: who can come up with the longest sentence that contains nothing but business-school-pretentious-bullshit?

You know......... "Going forward, we will have to work on our vertical integration strategies 24/7 if at the end of the day we are going to rationalise our streamlining deliverables.........."

scrubbedexpat141

I'm meant to be doing that with this lad we've employed, morning chat for 5 mins to get his mind focused.

But that 5 minute chat has been designated to a meeting room on the ground floor. So this will be 5 mins to get shit, walk to lift, wait, get downstairs, then 5 mins in the meeting, then 10 outside to smoke with him, then a few more back to the desks.

All in all I'll waste about 120 minutes a week with an idiot.

scrubbedexpat141

"from now on, we need to make sure the dicks above and below us do their shit all the time...that is, if we want to make sure the shit we agreed is going to get sorted. Alright dickheads?"

That's what I got from that.

goonerseba

yep its better if theres 2 of you and then it becomes a battle of wits and see who is the first to have to excuse themselves from the room !

mikewot

Do you seriously expect us to believe that people don't leverage their core competencies by not actioning their deliverables?
Company I used to work for made a webpage that you could use at meetings. You put in the names of the attendees and it linked to SAP so could work out their cost. Then it showed a counter of how much the meeting was costing as a running total. Was amazing how quickly you could rack up thousands of £'s Did tend to focus minds on who to invite, and whether you'd attend

scrubbedexpat141

I seriously do. I think.

I just find that basic shit is agreed in meetings for the sake of it. Then I get sent the minutes and just store them in a folder in my inbox to not look at ever again.

That being said, I definitely joined in an volunteered to do something special this week and I can't remember what.

mikewot

May I point the right honourable gentleman at post #68 in this thread.

jackthehat

= Get the Job Done!

mikewot

Your Team Leader needs to swallow the frog and tell these resources to get their feet into his inbox and start pushing the needle!

jackthehat

WTF does that mean?

lullabelle

I had an old senior who used to ask us to "give it a sprinkle of pixie dust."

Seriously...?

scrubbedexpat141

"Where's the juice? Come on 'Scamp' GIMME SOME JUUUIIICE"

Swear to God he just sounds like a Nazi. Literally...

auzdafluff

I'm probably going to be the only one that says not enough.

A large part of my job is writing up the bid proposals for our sales and pre-sales teams. At the moment, the only feedback I get from the sales people is a bunch of answers to some questions.

Hopefully that will all change once we move into the new office after Ramadan.

Bahtatboy

And now for the other side of the coin:

How many emails do you write / receive / get cc'd on about a particular issue, with each participant taking his own time and requiring the time of others, when, in reality, if all the participants actually sat together and thrashed the issue out, a large amount of time would be saved? That happens quite often in my organisation. And among people sitting within a stone's throw of one another.

We have largely dispensed with regular meetings--perhaps we've gone too far, since I believe that concise, to-the-point and properly-managed meetings are important for disseminating information, gathering opinions and making (SMART) action points. And provided those meetings are governed by kindergarten rules.