why do i have to have a job

[hugseverycat]

I'm having a tough week. I have been sleeping like shit, and feeling tired and cold all the time, and I'm unmotivated and resentful at my job. Today I resent my boss for having invited me to a meeting scheduled during my lunch break without telling me the subject. I had to track him down and it turns out that some people in some random department want to ask me about the long-running project I work on.

IT COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL

But no I have to move my lunch break around so I can sit in a fucking video chat to tell them really basic shit.

I am extremely resentful of the very IDEA of meetings right now. Our company presumably pays lots of money for this chat program that has all kinds of features like assigning tasks but every time someone wants to do something they set up 1-3 recurring weekly meetings with 10-30 people, don't give anyone an agenda, and the entire purpose of the project seems to be "have at least 1 hour of meetings a week and then maybe someone in the meeting will agree to do some work at some point in the future".

I attended a meeting on Monday that was an hour long, and the only agenda item I gave a shit about was "how can we make it so that we can collaborate on this project in ways other than waiting for the weekly meeting" but that agenda item got pushed because 3 people (of the 20 attendees) would rather spend the last 25 minutes of the meeting arguing about a topic that I literally knew nothing about.

Anyway when I'm not in meetings I just dither around and feel like a bad, lazy person because I can't bring myself to do any of my actual work.

It sucks.

Comments

[peachpai]

My housemate is going through it right now with the video meetings for work too, so you're definitely not alone. A year in and I still can't believe people haven't figured out that you don't NEED a video meeting for everything just because you have it available.

[hugseverycat]

Yeah my company is so meeting-obsessed, it drives me nuts. I was already full-time WFH (I live across country from our main office) and in some ways this has been a good thing. Now at least when they have meetings it's not like I'm the one person dialed in, where the people in the room would just ignore me and have side-conversations and make it effectively impossible for me to participate. So I can actually hear the meeting and participate on an equal footing now.

On the other hand, they invite me to way more meetings and I have come to realize that all of the shit I couldn't hear when I was dialed in to a conference room meeting was probably a total waste of time anyway.

[peachpai]

That is...truly an unfortunate realization. I hope it gets less terrible soon!

[merelydovely]

I am right there with you. Meetings suck and could very easily be group chats. Knowing a meeting is coming at some point later in the day just makes the whole day worse.

I keep forgetting meetings I'm supposed to show up to because none of them actually involve enough important information for me to really need to be there. It's just about putting in a face so the boss's boss knows I'm Present And Engaged.

I hope you get at least one (1) work thing touched today so you can feel productive! Good luck!

[hugseverycat]

I keep forgetting meetings I'm supposed to show up to because none of them actually involve enough important information for me to really need to be there. It's just about putting in a face so the boss's boss knows I'm Present And Engaged.

BIG MOOD

I am right at this moment skipping a pointless meeting, it is a check-in for a project I'm peripherally impacted by. Basically the whole meeting is 10 people + the project manager, and the project manager will ask us if the project is going well, and 9 of us will say yes and 1 of us will complain for 25 minutes

Seeing as how every single other check-in for the last 6 weeks has been exactly the same I don't get the point.

But sometimes my boss shows up (he is a meetings addict) so I don't want to look like I'm slacking. But honestly, fuck it.

[hiddenramen]

Oof, God, this is such a mood. There are so many meetings where I'm just like "THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAILLLLLL" and I cry quietly into my coffee thinking about how I had to restructure my day around this nonsense. Full solidarity, my dude.

[hugseverycat]

omg, so we had the meeting and the main takeaway is that THEY CONFUSED MY PROJECT FOR SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT

i rescheduled my lunch for this!! my boss invited me to this meeting? doesn't he know what my project is???