About a month ago, all employees at my company were required to attend a "team meeting".
It was one of those things where they pack us into a room and we get to listen to some of the higher ups talk about a lot of stuff that really doesn't affect us much and maybe one or two things that do. These meetings are almost always one of the very few times out of the year we actually SEE the higher ups. Usually their communication with us is limited to emails or memos.
Anyway, back to the meeting. I've been to a lot of these things and I see the same silly stuff every time, such as:
- Corporate guys being introduced with theme music, like they are WWE wrestlers or something. One guy came out to Black Sabbath's "Crazy train", wow what an original choice.
- Lame attempts to make jokes that fall completely flat. You're regional directors and vice presidents and COO's, NOT stand-up comedians. I appreciate what you're trying to do, but really, it's not working.
- People who could give Ben Stein a serious run for his money in the boredom department. I completely understand the director of human resources may suck at giving a presentation, but surely there is someone else who could do a better job?
Or even at the minimum have a second person up there with the director to try and make it more interesting.
- Telling us how proud and awesome we should feel because we have the honor of working for the company.
- Powerpoint slides that look like they were done by a 10th grader. Seriously, these people make a ton more money than I do and I could EASILY come up with a spiffier presentation than most of what I see at these meetings.
I'm sure there are more, but that's all I'm remembering for now, I guess I ended up tuning a lot of it out.
It was one of those things where they pack us into a room and we get to listen to some of the higher ups talk about a lot of stuff that really doesn't affect us much and maybe one or two things that do. These meetings are almost always one of the very few times out of the year we actually SEE the higher ups. Usually their communication with us is limited to emails or memos.
Anyway, back to the meeting. I've been to a lot of these things and I see the same silly stuff every time, such as:
- Corporate guys being introduced with theme music, like they are WWE wrestlers or something. One guy came out to Black Sabbath's "Crazy train", wow what an original choice.
- Lame attempts to make jokes that fall completely flat. You're regional directors and vice presidents and COO's, NOT stand-up comedians. I appreciate what you're trying to do, but really, it's not working.
- People who could give Ben Stein a serious run for his money in the boredom department. I completely understand the director of human resources may suck at giving a presentation, but surely there is someone else who could do a better job?
Or even at the minimum have a second person up there with the director to try and make it more interesting.
- Telling us how proud and awesome we should feel because we have the honor of working for the company.
- Powerpoint slides that look like they were done by a 10th grader. Seriously, these people make a ton more money than I do and I could EASILY come up with a spiffier presentation than most of what I see at these meetings.
I'm sure there are more, but that's all I'm remembering for now, I guess I ended up tuning a lot of it out.
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