We have a senior engineer that will subtly drop hints saying they would've had an answer if there was a meeting agenda lol

oh i've started doing something like that. "Off the top of my head I'd say XYZ but unfortunately I didn't have any notice to prepare materials"

At work I established the policy of not accepting meeting invites without an agenda. "Sorry, given that nobody prepared an agenda I assume that the meeting is no longer necessary and we should all invest our time more productively."

My (senior engineer) policy is: If there is no agenda in the invite, I ask the organizer to set it. If they don't provide it, I decline the meeting 😬.

The agenda is in the title, Sky.

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Hopefully not all your Rights and Democracy, I feel ya on that dude

as well as a reason to meet. like, why do we need to hop on a zoom? what are we trying to solve by getting together?

There’s definitely a good middle ground there that a lot of people miss by either being all zoom all the time or never zoom any of the time

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You should join my co-op

Agenda are a bourgeois affectation

And ends with action items assigned to people who actually, you know, DO them...

The number one reason I love retirement

I’ve been retired less than a year and don’t even remember what a meeting is.

and others come prepared, and they stick to it

in my experience, people who lead pointless meetings have no idea why nothing got done. they think that's just the modal meeting

“Reject meetings without an agenda” is a great policy, but it can be politically fraught.

someone on In The Pipeline responded to a meetings discussion with "No Agenda, No Attenda"

i'm too jr at this organization to do that but when I get some seniority back.....

I've had great success just asking (ahead of time) "Is there an agenda for this meeting?"

*peeks under the workshop blanket* oh it's a meeting

#TheStruggleIsReal

I have one PM who sends the meeting agenda... After the meeting has ended.

Do they send a recap with action items with the invite? That would save allot of time.

No, just "this is what the meeting will be about" but sent after it's over. I try not to think about the thought process too much bc it makes my head hurt

Isnt it ok to ask for an agenda? Or am I the giant B at work and I don’t know it? Seriously, I have meeting overlaps and I gotta make choices. Plus who plans a meeting without thinking about what will be covered in the meeting?

AMEN

only if its woek