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Our unit has a conference call every twelve hours where each senior rep from every division globally has to attend, provide an update, and pick up what's happened since the last meeting.
Previously, we went through nearly twenty people across the organisation giving the same bullshit numbers and stats, with the odd bit of news or gossip. It took fucking ages.
Now, some bright spark has knocked together a form and a Power BI automation tool, so the stats are forwarded before the call has even began, and people only pipe up in the meeting if anything has changed or if something out of the ordinary has happened. It has turned a 30min call into a five minute call tops.
A rare W for common sense.
What godless moron decided that a standing meeting every 12 hours was a good idea?! People like that are busy doing the opposite of working - they are hindering everyone from working!
More often than not, I'd agree with you - though it is quite handy for catching up on what's been happening while I've been elsewhere or asleep before a nightshift.
It is entertaining to see what rumours are going around though, finding out who's made a real James Hunt of a ticket so nobody makes the same colossal clusterfuck of a job twice, and hearing who's moving where in the organisation though.
If they stopped doing them tomorrow though, I wouldn't miss them.
Godless?! No atheist would ever do something so stupid.