Meetings at my office make me want to shoot myself

[Anonymous]

We do this now to prevent the above scenario from happening:
- put out the agenda ahead of time
- appoint roles: time-keeper (always challenging but worth it . . . Get the biggest curmudgeon to do this.), facilitator, note-taker.
- Divide up segments. We put out topics a week ahead of time and ask for input and ideas. Then, there are people appointed to lead that part of the discussion.
- Action Plan Person: Whatever is left to do is given to a colleague who writes up the actions. At the start of every meeting, the facilitator reviews the action plan.

[Anonymous]

OP - sounds like work for a trade assn in my office and, are quite possibly my office neighbor. I can hear your meetings and am pained by it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HA! You must secretly be one of my coworkers. We were recently told to keep our updates to a minimum, and, you got it, the person who made that request is the one who goes on and on and on. About nothing at all. And then when anyone else talks she literally slouches over as if she's reclining in her chair, ready to go to sleep. They are a horrible waste of time. And if she does actually talk about the subject matter at hand, as in why we are all working in this field, she utters such nonsense that it truly defies logic that she's employed at all.

op here... Oh this comes so close to my reality...

[Anonymous]

OP, when addressing co-workers call them "THE OFFICE" characters' names!!!