'I am so sick of these meetings': Micromanager adds 10+ hours of meetings to employee's schedule to review why not enough work is getting done

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jun 28, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

Let this story serve as yet another reminder to managers and supervisors everywhere that if it can be communicated in an email, there is absolutely no need for a meeting.

Here is another tale of a micromanager who seems to be so concerned with their employee's level of productivity and has zero self-awareness considering the fact that they have been repeatedly adding 10+ hours of meetings every week. But then again, who is genuinely surprised here? Micromanagers never realize that they are often the problem. Perhaps they should give the song "Antihero" another listen and repeat the lyrics, "It's me! Hi, I'm the problem, it's me." Because the truth of the matter is that in most companies, every meeting is time taken away from getting things done. Sometimes, it's necessary but more often than not, it's really about managers convincing themselves that they're doing a good job.

For more stories like this, take a look at this post about employees getting their long-overdue overtime pay.

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    "In the past 2 months, they have added 10 hours of meetings to my weekly schedule."
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    They have added 10 hour of meetings about why work isn't being done
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    I am so sick of these meetings. I work in a facility as a trainer, and my job is to onboard and train employees, retrain, and remediate.
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    In the past 2 months, they have added 10 hours of meetings to my weekly schedule.
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    These meetings are all about reviewing spreadsheets and reviewing every metric they can review. Reviewing to review.
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    The trouble is they call me out not doing enough trainings. Today for example, I had to cancel two trainings to have a meeting about why we need more trainings.
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    And always, the people who run the meetings are NOT on site. These are work from home senior managers, sitting in their living rooms telling me to do more, while their meetings make me do less.
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    It is so frustrating. I enjoy my job otherwise and love what I do, so let me do it!!
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    Original-Steak-2354 · 1 hr. ago Email them what you said translated into corporate.
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    twizle89 24 min. ago I think it's time for death by spreadsheet, showing them your scheduled training times, and how their meetings have overlapped those times, and then finish it by asking them how you can train anyone when your too busy making spreadsheets to show them how much they interfere with said training.
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    LiquidSocrates • just now Honestly, I'd say all of this in a meeting. I'd tell those idiots two trainings were canceled or rescheduled because of meetings. Of course,
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    these words would most certainly fall on deaf ears. Management would likely tell me to schedule trainings on weekends or after hours. Either way, my words would be immediate discounted.
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    AjSweet1 5 min. ago Yup. Worthless WFH meat sacks. We had this problem and now are all back In the office. I'm not saying all WFH people are like this but majority take advantage and expect things that are unrealistic.
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    MollyGodiva 3 min. ago I think you need to propose a weekly meeting to discuss this.
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    dsdvbguutres. 2 min. ago But let's schedule a pre-meeting to assemble an agenda for the meeting.
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