meetings

years ago i worked as a junior art director at an ad agency. every monday morning, me, the art director & copy director would have a meeting about our weeks work. what we needed to get done, what freelancers i needed to hire, etc. then my boss, and the sales associates wanted in on the meeting. it was held in the conference room and donuts & coffee were served. the meeting turned into a half a day every monday. one day, i was told i didn’t need to attend any more. i wasn’t management. the following week me, the art director & the copy director held our new monday afternoon meetings to figure out the weeks work. their monday morning meetings were irrelevant to anything other than a huge waste of coffee and donuts. today, i had to attend a two hour conference meeting basically about filling out paperwork on my years goal. what should have been an email attachment with directions to fill out turned into a two hour waste of everyones time. there are too many managers that are irrelevant to a company….