It's not about the specific time, it's about having a work schedule and expecting to be able to stick to it. "The director wants to attend your meeting just because" is not an emergency you should make people scramble to accommodate last-minute. |
NP- it's not that she doesn't trust you all to do your jobs, she's trying to see what you all do in your meetings, how they're ran. I'm not a senior manager but I love to sit in on other people's staff meetings occasionally. |
where did op say they have a work schedule? i think that's the missing piece. if the regular schedule is 7-3 and a meeting is scheduled for 4 then that's a consideration. but I dont see that mentioned in the post. a senior leader wanting to move a meeting to accommodate their schedule is pretty standard. They are busier than you. |
Then the director can lean on alllllllllll of the middle management between her and the bottom employees. If the lowest of the low employees all aren't doing something right, then it means all of management above them is doing it wrong or needs training. Everything always flows from the top down, not the bottom up. Micromanaging front line employee work for major companies as a senior leader is absolutely bonkers. You lean on all of the managers to improve their work or work output. Not upend lowest level employee schedules at the last minute so that you can micromanage their work as the most senior person in the entire office/org. |
We've talked about the required core hours multiple times in this thread. You can't tell everyone they have flexible schedules and that core hours are from 9-3 PM. People will take that as permission to come in at say 6:30 AM and leave by 4PM if they need to do things like pick up their kids. You can't change company policies as hoc. If you need to schedule a meeting at 4 PM, you do it in advance so people can plan, not at the last minute the night before. It can be virtually impossible these days to find last minute childcare or transportation home for children withess than 24 hours notice. |
Op if your issue is meetings outside of ‘core hours’ then just talk to your supervisor about whether those need to be flexed. Your set up is unusual and most of us would not expect to have left work by 4pm so you aren’t going to get much sympathy other than the posts that you are clearly writing yourself. |
Core hours where you schedule meetings are not usual at all. And OP has not indicated that they are the one who can't make 4 PM meetings. But when you have leadership that does these kinds of things, it hurts morale for everyone and it's sometimes a way of getting people to quit to reduce the workforce (like with RTO). |
Who is the “we”? Are you OP and then trying to post as other people? OP is an “I” and hasn’t identified themself as having core hours. |
This is why you are a peon OP. |
Lol*3 |
AI route it is. Headcount will be right sized to 150 FTEs in no time. For those 1000s of written reports no one reads. |
Gotta change a few numbers around from yesterday’s report and Presto! Time to go come and call it a day. |
News flash troll: it’s not a carpool if yours doing it every single day and time. Socialize that stuff. Or are the other parents paying you to pick up and drop off their kids and your nanny job is a side gig so you can’t do 3 or 4pm meets? |
New senior leadership has every right in the world to sit in on any or all of the meetings of the 800 subordinates. She’s probably reading your previous performance reviews as well. And monitoring hours and productivity. |
Yikes. So unprofessional |