why do company meetings suck?
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- MondoMorphic0
At my former company, I would literally spend the entirety of every single day in meetings. Brainstorming meetings. All-hands meetings. Skip-level meetings with execs. Planning meetings (i.e., meetings to plan for future meetings). Staff meetings. Community meetings. Committee meetings. "Special" meetings to discuss mission statements. Department meetings. Division meetings. Mid-year review meetings. Annual review meetings. Meetings to plan for next year's review meetings. 180 review meetings.
From 8AM to 6PM, I would sit listlessly in boring, soul-draining meetings, and then, once I got home that night, start actually working (in preparation for the next day's meetings).
What's funny is that I left that company to go freelance and now they are one of my clients. The thing is that now, I get paid more, I don't spend all day sitting in braindead meetings, and best of all, I do WAY more actual design for them now than when I worked there!