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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.
go to meetings to avoid other meetings
I go to meetings so I don't have to work
I'm going to need to pull you into a meeting real quick so we can discuss this attitude.
I'm in a meeting right now. Yeah, I don't have anything to contribute to it, so I'm browsing.
It’s meetings all the way down. And if they make you watch training videos…
Problem is, that the work is still there after the meeting
This is definitely a difference between people that believe the work they do is important and people just punching a clock.
I teach at a community college (salaried) and my partner works as staff in the same school (hourly). She works her ass off, but when she gets to the end of the day, she is done and leaves work at the office, so attending meetings is no big deal to her. Meanwhile, I've gotten involved enough in peripheral committee work that I regularly stay up working until 1AM because there are literally not enough hours in the day to get done what needs to get done. I could try to leave work at work, but I'd be hanging students and fellow instructors out to dry, so that's not always an option.
So? Not your fault you had to go to a pointless meeting. Leave at the normal time.
Yeah I'll tell that to HR when I'm getting laid off again, I'm sure they will totally get it and reconsider
If HR can't understand that, then it isn't a decent work environment to begin with.
You can always try to explain it by calculating the cost of you sitting uselessly in meetings. Your hourly wage X amount of hours in meetings. I'm sure they will take your side.
See, now you’re talking hourly versus salary. That’s why if the meeting is bullshit, I peace out.
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.