The most mind-numbingly boring meeting. Ever.

[LiquidX 0]

Can you beat this?

 

6 hours yesterday. 1 meeting. 20 people. 7 speeches - all basically read from paper (copies of which we had in front of us). No discussion.

 

I didn't say anything in the meeting. Out of the 13 other people in the meeting I think two of them said something and it was of the "so desu ne" variety.

 

What a total waste of everyones time.

 

[Yuki's Passion 1]

have one of those every week but at least theyre usually around the 3 hour zone

 

I love that - all the information they talk about is printed out and distributed. Then its read verbatim. Yeah! I learned a lot. Thanks wan#ers

 

But 6 hours?!

[bushpig 0]

6 hours is ****in insane! We had a three hour one yesterday! Yeah, that brainless reading is maddening!

[damian 0]

hmm, long boring meetings.

 

Did you get an erection that wouldn't go away?

[Ocean11 0]

You could have made yourself the hero of everybody there by making a sweeping efficiency enhancement suggestion, and probably receiving a pay rise and promotion, effective from that very moment.

[2pints-mate 0]

I can't imagine sitting there for 6 hours listening to people read from paper and no discussion. It's almost unimaginable. Does anyone get a feeling of usefulness from such a meeting?

[cal 6]

I think some do actually. They must do, otherwise they would not waste so much of everyones time. Perhaps they think people would not read a report if it was just served up to them on paper. So being forced to listen to it in a meeting is the way to go.

[bushpig 0]

I know in my school, if they did just give out the prints and leave it to everyone to read, then nothing would get read at all. It's a catch 22 really. Too many useless handouts - I'm sure 1 percent of the amazon disappears at every meeting we have here

[me jane 0]

I've just been checking an English text for such a meeting. The intro went something like, "I apologose for my poor English pronunciation & have had the text of my speech distributed to aid in your understanding..." Then I had to read the speech into a cassette so the speaker could practice beforehand. No questions or discussion time because speaker had written the original in Japanese and couldn't speak a word of English. I wonder how many of the listeners attending such a meeting would understand the presentation in either it's spoken or written form.

 

Easy to complain about but actually I guess we are very lucky to be native English speakers. There are a lot of gifted scientists who have such difficulty getting their ideas out because anything of international significance is done in English.

[Yuki's Passion 1]

I wuuddo rikku to sannkyuu berry berry macchi foru camingu to ouwa meetinguu todaa-. Nawu, foru za fastoo itemmu to disucassuu wirru beu za topiiku of za rassto sabujectoo whichu we neba finishido. nan dattakke? wa, kuzo, eigo kuso muzui na!!

[muikabochi 208]

Just had a 3 hour meeting. Total waste of time it was. I got lots of paper and reports though.

[wendy-cake 0]

I just look as it as a chance to relax.

I'm getting paid for it.

I'm not management and worried about the bottom line. (Haha, selfish!)

If they want to waste everyones time..