Company Meeting Stereotypes

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[brothermaynard]

You forgot the Silent Observer. He stays quiet and counts down to early retirement.

[trojan]

Meetings: where the minutes are kept but hours are lost.

[akvikefan]

Haha I love how Nancy the Negator proposes Pinterest as her idea, and then 75 seconds later shoots down technology ideas because they'll lose the senior demographic.

[condorboss]

You missed the "Diverter" who goes off on another subject at every excuse and the "Returner" who keeps going back to a topic that you thought was settled.

[chrisza]

Got asked to put together a powerpoint. Took 2 days and half a saturday, followed by 2 more days of edits that the boss wanted. It got breezed over in 5 minutes in the meeting.

[bladedspokes]

I'm disappointed. Where was "guy who asks a never-ending stream of inane and irrelevant questions right at the end of the meeting?"

[markcarey]

the guy with the idea about the rain was the best

[briacastilla]

OMG the last woman taking "important notes", that part was so funny hahahaha

[theoriginalkrabbypatty]

I don’t like meetings so I usually tune out! I feel like they’re a power trip for people who LUUUUV meetings!

[mzsmart]

"I got a green marker" lmfao

[FellowApp]

Don't forget The Multitasker! This person is usually doing something else in the meeting and pops their head up once in a while to ask a question that the rest of the room spent the last five minutes discussing. Particularly rampant in virtual meetings!

[dexagalapagos]

OMFG. The Rambler is so on point. I worked with someone who'd start explaining something, then go off on a tangent, then on a tangent for the tangent, it'd be like a never ending inception.

[Yesica]

Now I remember why I always hated meetings. All I could think about was, "I've got WORK to do! Stop wasting my time!"

And the worst meeting was when you'd get called in to be fired.

[Biruk]

The Rambler!!! Always takes the longest time to say just one single thing LOL

[furiouhuzzah]

Biggest pet peeve: the person who shows up late, but still had time to stop for coffee!!

[Yobachi]

"And time."

"Where you going. We still have 100% of the things to accomplish."

What this didn't really show is the reason why you still have 100% of the things to accomplish at the end of the meeting; which is because people, and usually foremost the meeting leader, spent all of the meeting time babbling about nothing and going off on irrelevant tangents, rather than work through the points of emphasis in anything even close to a systematic manner.

Most meetings I have go to, the first 15 minutes are a bunch of socializing, that's after we started 5 minutes or more late because people show up when ever they want like others time isn't valuable. Then after the social chatter its followed by stating the obvious about what work we need to be getting done, where management is never captured by the irony that this useless meeting discussing it is what's keeping us from doing the work.

[tonydelorenzo]

Just tried to show this at a meeting and had the IT connection fail.

[scotchwhisky]

Then there is you, you sit and watch everything unfold until the time is up.

[kbell]

"So we'll party in the rain!"

[comedycentraloriginals]

Alright, good work everyone. Regroup tomorrow.