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Activities for Boring Meetings (2012)

by Warchi3f on 8/14/22, 2:07 PM with 18 comments

  • by jrm4 on 8/14/22, 4:14 PM

    I'm expecting a lot of finger-wavy responses, but broadly I'll just say -- I really like seeing things like this "in print." I feel like in today's (obviously in spaces like this, but generally) LinkedIn world, it is literally important to push back against the seriousness of the work world, since it's not always clear that this flavor of work is always (or even mostly) an air-quotes "good thing."

    (Personally, I'm contrasting to my own experiences with a Discord meme fueled company game studio but-it's-everyone's-side-hustle thing that's both really fun and gets stuff done)

  • by easton on 8/14/22, 4:31 PM

    My dad used to pick three random words from the dictionary and try to work them into whatever him and his coworkers would have to say during a menial update meeting. One time they were able to work all three words into a single sentence.

  • by Gualdrapo on 8/14/22, 3:38 PM

    Getting a "This site uses features not available in older browsers" message with Falkon (!) so here's a snapshot from archive.org:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20170222090404/https://wiki.c2.c...

  • by RcouF1uZ4gsC on 8/14/22, 4:16 PM

    All meetings should have a real time count of the cost of the meeting based on the hourly compensation of everyone involved.

    Is this discussion we are having right now worth $10,000?

  • by stewbrew on 8/14/22, 6:05 PM

    It's sad that the most obvious option is missing: try to find out why the speaker/other people in the room think it's interesting.

  • by anotherevan on 8/15/22, 12:30 AM

    One place I worked had too many meetings. One thing me and a colleague noticed that everyone (including ourselves) tended to sit in the same spots every time. So we started getting there first and picking random seats to sit in each time.

    It was fun to then watch the mental gears turn as each person walked into the room, saw we those that arrived before them were sitting somewhere unexpected and then had to figure out where they would then sit. The cultural and power dynamics involved really did annoy some people.

  • by throwaway892238 on 8/14/22, 3:36 PM

    That's funny; I always thought my product manager was trying to make my head explode, what with the 45-minute stand-ups and all.

  • by boffinism on 8/14/22, 5:49 PM

    Growing up, #2 was called 'the sermon game', but only letters that started words counted. The goal was not to reach the end of the alphabet but to get further through than your peers.