[lizknope]

15) Meetings.

I look at my director and senior directors schedule in Outlook. It is 6 to 10 hours of meetings per day. They often start at 6am and might go until midnight because the company is worldwide. Meetings with people in India, China, Singapore, Israel, Europe, east and west coast US.

I get annoyed if I have more than 2 hours of a meetings a day. I get really annoyed when they interfere with my personal life outside of normal work hours.

I may be working from home at 6am or 11pm mostly to monitor jobs and check results. But I don't want to have a meeting at those times.

[sirsinsalot]

Unless I am paid by the hour, there's nothing making me do more than 8 hours per day.

Even if I am paid hourly (I am) ... it's rare.

I am not sure what kind of people do that, but if it's managers, then EM/Lead is as far down that path I want to go.

[havblue]

While I think people who organize these meetings might have a benefit of being able to keep track of everyone, I'm usually surprised how much dead time there is when people discuss what they're working on and there are only 2 or 3 people who are involved in the discussion while 20 or so other people are on the clock doing nothing. The manager might reply that everyone should know and care about everything happening but this is never the case.

[mdgrech23]

Companies will say look at all the money we're saving by by hiring people in India/China/whereever meanwhile the managers are stuck taking calls at all hours of the day. The saving are really enabled by the manager working these extra hours to support international teams.

[cvhashim04]

Those managers sound like pushovers.

[lizknope]

The managers are the ones scheduling the meetings.