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minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up156arrow-down4·3 months agoMeetings are the viable alternative to work. Meetings that you don’t need to contribute to are even better. Take a break. Catch some zees.
minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 months agoThat’s how I look at it. You want to pay me to go to a meeting that could’ve been an email? Ok! Bet!
minus-squarethesystemisdown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoWhat if you enjoy your work and find value in it; and the meeting is pointless bullshit that just breaks your focus?
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 months agoDo whatever you want, mate. Decline the meeting?
minus-squarethesystemisdown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoI think OP’s screenshot is tactful and effective. It’s similar to my approach. Which starts: “Thanks for the invitation, what’s on the agenda?” Then I decide to accept or politely decline and ask for minutes.
minus-squareCid Vicious@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoSomeone after my own heart.
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoyeah what the fuck; when you’re asked to do nothing on company time, you take it!
minus-squareBonus@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoThis is all well and good as long as you’re not that one person who has to actually generate deliverables.
Meetings are the viable alternative to work. Meetings that you don’t need to contribute to are even better. Take a break. Catch some zees.
That’s how I look at it. You want to pay me to go to a meeting that could’ve been an email? Ok! Bet!
What if you enjoy your work and find value in it; and the meeting is pointless bullshit that just breaks your focus?
Do whatever you want, mate. Decline the meeting?
I think OP’s screenshot is tactful and effective. It’s similar to my approach. Which starts:
“Thanks for the invitation, what’s on the agenda?”
Then I decide to accept or politely decline and ask for minutes.
Someone after my own heart.
yeah what the fuck; when you’re asked to do nothing on company time, you take it!
This is all well and good as long as you’re not that one person who has to actually generate deliverables.