Define Meeting

Tonight was the monthly staff meeting. Meetings at my work usually discuss the same topic each month, in new hopes of finding a way to make money. We go around the room in a round table discussion and throw out lots of ideas.

The advantage to the meeting is that we get to leave work an hour early and we have the option to eat dinner afterwards on the company. Tonight’s dining selection was Chuck E Cheese. I’ll refrain from my comments on that and let you read Laura’s blog at www.xanga.com/lauraannc.

So what is a meeting really; a friendly environment for ideas to be shared? Instructive criticisim on how to operate more efficiently? Or is it simply a way to appear to be doing more than we actually are. How often to ideas get implemented? In any company, there are the visionaries and the laborers. Somewhere between vision and end product, there is a gap in what happens.

I find that meetings hold employees capture for an hour and a half after work. At the conclusion you are back where you started and wondering what just happened. The best in when people have meetings to plan meetings. My last job was classic for this. Anyways, I spent my evening with co-workers before coming home to American Idol.