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Wasting time in company meetings - corporate events and conferences

Company meetings a waste of time

The boring company meeting

After an hour I usually find my mind wandering. I have seriously considered faking my own death to avoid the dreaded event and then applying for my old job - Reggie Perrin style.



Well company meetings are all a waste of time in my opinion. The scenario is always the same. There you are happily working away, making progress and perhaps earning money when suddenly THAT email drops into your inbox.

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26-2-2008Sounds exactly like the company I work for. Glad I read this, as I thought it was just me who had the same feelings.bored stiff
23-12-2007Hey Euan Connor is One of my best buds yip you are right he is scottish, he acually sent the email out to the whole department, we were working for the MOD at the time, and he has got it down to a Tea.Lynne Hume (Glasgow)
14-11-2007Rebelle, you're never too late to speak up around here. Welcome to our gripes and discussions!Kenny
14-11-2007Part Two And then there's Stuart who seems to think he's a supervisor, but is actually not! But he seems to have delusions of grandeur because his signature on his emails says supervisor. Why this has never been picked up by higher management is a mystery, but then they're hardly the br...moreMatzy
14-11-2007Part One. Here is an email posted by one disillusined employee as he was about to walk out the door for the final time. Some words used does indicate this person is a Scot. You'll enjoy this, I can tell.. Well folks, my time here has come to an end... I've had just about as much as...moreMatzy
13-11-2007I know this comment is far too late to be of interest any more, but I've only just discovered this site and I'm enjoying reading at random. I LOVED this post. I appreciated the author's tongue in cheek humour and it's exactly the sort of account I wish I could write as well as he d...moreRebelle
28-6-2007Totally brilliant post - it's being able to laugh at the madness of it all that keeps us sane. "Satsuma race" - I think they've taken over most of our HR dept.Rat race runner
22-6-2007I, too, used to work for an American company who had one of these guys, these Merchant Bankers, whose sole job was to fly regularly round to each of the world sites, with, guess what, a Power Point presentation on his laptop to give to us. That presentation was always full of garbage statistics, and...moreThe Poor Guy
22-6-2007I spent about three years in the 1980's working for US corporations who were just starting to pioneer all this crap in their european operations,..essentially it's all about providing incompetent and ineffective sales and marketing people with some way of filling in their days. The word W***...moreian maclean......tahiti
20-6-2007edd - I have. Maybe you should start a "why I think some gripes are pointless sh*t" gripe and expand on your arguments. I am... - I will if you will ;-)Employee 774
20-6-2007Oh please not another post with some guy who abuses this website. "Go and commit suicide" because maybe thats not what he wants to do. It's not a pointless and "sh*t" post because thats what this site is all about if you dont like it then dont bother to come on here in the future...moreemily
20-6-2007This post highlights alot of rubbish Senior management do to there staff... Why is it when they have a power point presentation, do they have hand outs too, that is the presentation? Also, my company makes us travel some 100 miles plus to london to do a training course with a side of the com...morethefox01



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