Jeff Stahler for March 10, 2021

Meetings are often the worst time wasters for the people who are actually doing the work. Important though, for the folks who are organizing and managing.

“I’ve installed a new app that makes it look like I’ve left the call, but I’m totally still there.”

Virtual meetings are boring.

I eat breakfast during on of my meetings and do my exercises during another. Both are boring meetings that throw up chart after chart (so nobody is on camera). As for the latter meeting, I never have input, but it is important for me to know what other people are doing.

Maturity is learning to live with things that cannot be changed.

The next panel should show a minority home where the kid is left alone because mom is off to work because she can’t work remotely. Those are the households most adversely affected by keeping the schools closed.

Zoom meetings are my only chance for human contact. I’ll take ’em.

Multi-tasking now includes getting enough separation between sleeping, parenting, teaching at home, working from home and working to keep up the home. Wears on a person

And then there are those few who are so self-important that they feel they can saunter in late to a meeting. Then, the rest of us who were on time, had to listen to a recap of what was discussed.

Meeting are an event where the minutes are kept while the hours are lost.

“Let’s go around the screen and find out where everyone is planning on going next week or how their last trip went.” “Shelly, no one is interested in what you do at work, next person.”

Could have been avoided had the country followed a few simple suggestions/rules. However you allowed it to be politicized……………