The word “meeting” comes from Greek word, Mee which means boring and Latin word Ting which means never ending.
Obviously I am not referring to your meetings with fiancé in lake view restaurant corner table on Friday evening.
I’m talking about the office meetings, in particular to most happening IT industry.
Meetings are essentially of two types. One way meetings & No way meetings.
One way meetings are those where the boss announces and everybody listens. In the allotted Q&A time, no questions are asked, and if any dumb guy asks, the answers are too confidential to disclose in the meeting. Typical traditional industries style.
The IT industry, which boasts of no hierarchy (its okay to ignore your boss as long as he doesn’t know), open doors culture (you can keep an eye on others, may wink occasionally) & team work (No one will be responsible for the failure, end of the day), invented the second type of No way meetings.
In a meeting, at any given time, essentially one of these two can happen.
1. A person describes his problems or issues, respectfully called as technical challenges.
2. Others give advice to the above.
In first case, rest all having no time to listen others problems (everybody got enough of their own) burry their heads in laptops checking the mails with [FWD] in the subject. Else they practice their childhood drawings with great passion on their notebooks.
In the second case, no body having time to listen to others advice, follow the suit as above. These are the early state syndromes.
In the advanced state people have weekly recurring meetings where they can start creating the mails themselves & browse web more officially.
In the acute state people start sleeping, occasionally snoring.
Got to leave for the third meeting…. Meet you later …!!
