Checking Texts in Meetings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a millennial and it’s 100% okay and I do it and I expect others to do it too. It’s called multitasking. Sorry boomers you can’t deal.

Absolutely.

Get over it boomers. The world has changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a millennial and it’s 100% okay and I do it and I expect others to do it too. It’s called multitasking. Sorry boomers you can’t deal.

Is this satire?

I’m the poster - no, it’s not. I’m a manager and truly don’t care, truly. Our unit is excelling and it’s not bc we’re texting or not texting in meetings.

What do you do? Social media PR? What does excelling mean…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a millennial and it’s 100% okay and I do it and I expect others to do it too. It’s called multitasking. Sorry boomers you can’t deal.

Absolutely.

Get over it boomers. The world has changed.

Boomers were the first “multitaskers”, with the advent of enabling technology and less factory work.

And then we all learned it’s a terrible idea.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/science-clear-multitasking-doesnt-work/

I would argue if you can be texting in a meeting and “excel”, then the meeting should have been an email.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for your coworker for standing his ground

Yes!!

Most meeting are stupid, sorry. I doubt these people were performing surgery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a millennial and it’s 100% okay and I do it and I expect others to do it too. It’s called multitasking. Sorry boomers you can’t deal.

Is this satire?

I’m the poster - no, it’s not. I’m a manager and truly don’t care, truly. Our unit is excelling and it’s not bc we’re texting or not texting in meetings.

What do you do? Social media PR? What does excelling mean…

DP. I’m a physician. People are always checking texts, PerfectServe, and answering pages or phone calls during meetings. I mean, even during a family meeting discussing end of life care, I would still take a few seconds to look at a PerfectServe message. In the OR, someone who isn’t sterile will read messages out loud, including personal messages from a traveling teen.

I have to agree that this seems like a power trip on the part of the boss. What’s going on in these meetings that requires 100% focus from all participants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It’s normal to check texts during internal meetings. I don’t think anyone should be scolded for doing so.

Disagree. This seems totally inappropriate. If the meeting is so unimportant, then it should be cancelled. If a meeting is being held, then the presumption should be that the topic is important and that all attendees need to be attentive and not distracted.

Haha as if.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just out of a meeting with visiting managers from NYC. A colleague of mine was 'scolded' by our manager for looking at a text. Visiting managers said nothing. Guy who checked his phone didn't apologize and actually said- 'yeah, my kid is traveling today so I'll continue to check texts from her'.

It was definitely an 'eff you' to the guy who called him out. The whole thing was awkward, and I don't think anything should have been said to begin with

Thoughts?

Colleague should have either privately told manager that he needed to check texts or announced it at beginning of the meeting. Overall, I give checking texts/texting during a meeting a thumbs down though.

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Settle down, boomers.

Love the savage response from the coworker!