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Old 05-16-2024, 10:04 AM   #4085
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Is the joke that is a corporate work environment something that one should hope to make whatever improvements they can? Or better to lean right into the nonsense and forget reason?

Like I know the ‘meetings’ troupe is well worn by now, but Jesus. I get lit up for not having meetings with people who aren’t involved, impacted, or otherwise relevant to the decisions…because you know, I was busy meeting with the people who ARE involved, impacted or relevant to the decision. Like do people just thrive off this sort of nonsense? This is the expectation? Be busy all the time and never consider why you’re ‘busy’? Meet and talk about things you’ve talked about a million times and chat about meeting to talk about things that you don’t need to even talk about let alone meet about them have a meeting about the talk you had then talk to others about the talk you had about the meeting and meet to talk about the talks about the last meeting better be mildly involved in everything all the time so I can ignore the actual issues at hand because I’m so busy with all this talking and meeting about things that don’t matter but hey we talked about it and decided to meet about the talk about those things that don’t matter.

####. Off.
I once worked at a large federally-regulated company. The amount of asinine crap i had to do on unimportant matters was immense. Then there was the insane micromanagement - like asking to edit meeting invites etc. - that just put me over the edge.

I lasted 6 months. 4 of those months were me actively looking for a new job.

You hired me to do a job, paid me ####, and overloaded me with work i cannot do in the 9-5 you promised. At least let me try to get it all done within the confines of my hours of work
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