The PM on my team is type #1. Except he doesn't actually lead the meeting or even have a plan for the meeting. He sits there and stares at his PC for 5 minutes until I walk out and go back to work.

I stopped doing that after his boss asked me not to. Now I just sit across from the PM and do my own work via the wifi.

My ex described these as 'weenie wangles'.
Mot of them are such a waste of time.

Diogenes: #8 - The self-absorbed person, who asks questions that are very specific to them and eat up meeting time with things the moderator couldn't possibly answer, or have no value to the rest of us.

Good god this. Shoot them an email later, or talk after the meeting but unless it's something the whole group needs to address just shut the fark up.

What about the "multi-department meeting creator". The one who thinks that we want to hear about the minutiae of other departments. I barely can care what our department does on the macro level. Stop it. We don't care.

And "Sally Sidetrack". That person who ALWAYS like to sidetrack a meeting about her commute, or the recent coupon savings she got.

Or the worst offenders. The quarterly reports where 90% is spent going over the figures so far. Please just email the excel spreadsheet out and have a 5 minute meeting instead of a 2 hour meeting.

Anybody who uses "piggyback" or "talk offline". I want to choke those tards.

#8 - that attractive slutty girl in the office that puts her hand on my thigh under the table at every meeting. I wish people could just pay attention in meetings and not distract others.

Diogenes: Pocket Ninja: Diogenes: #8 - The self-absorbed person, who asks questions that are very specific to them and eat up meeting time with things the moderator couldn't possibly answer, or have no value to the rest of us.

These kinds of people are especially drawn to company-wide meetings about health care plans, which serve as a natural ecosystem for them.

Yep. It's not as bad in the small meeting. But for big things being rolled out, like changes to benefits? It's like they expect the CEO or VP of HR to know your personal portfolio.

When you get a big group of people together for a meeting, the stupid flows right to the top.

I would leave a comment, but I have to be in a meeting in 26 minutes.

The person that takes up valuable meeting time talking to one other person about an issue that only pertains to the two of them.

I may be #3, the idea killer.

If you stopped having dumb ideas I would feel less need to shoot them down in flames.

The Narcissistic Rage-aholic who thinks every criticism is pointed at them. Usually they are right b/c they are in the "anger phase" of accepting that they are a dumbass.

/So glad I don't work in a corporate environment, still have to deal with the above personality type tho.

Those who schedule meetings during the lunch hour deserve merciless, torturous executions.

Meh...I'd rather have an annoying and unnecessary planned meeting than what I call "impromptu" meetings, where two or more people having a discussion decide to call me up and put me on speakerphone and start peppering me with questions. I wish I could just disable my phone number. If you want me, e-mail me. Or, better yet, schedule something. My calendar is shared for a reason.

I'll admit to being #3. Honestly though, why would you let conversation go down one road for 20 minutes before going, "we can't do that."

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I also dislike the "too much information" people. They HAVE to show you their deep understanding of a situation by explaining what you all already know or telling an anectode/story that shows them as the wise elders. They also ask questions that they already know the answer to so they can, again, demonstrate their deep understanding of it.

Is there a slot for the Douche that calls a 3pm meeting ona friday?

Rev.K: Diogenes: #8 - The self-absorbed person, who asks questions that are very specific to them and eat up meeting time with things the moderator couldn't possibly answer, or have no value to the rest of us.

#9 - The PowerPoint Verbatim-ator:

This useless specimen makes PowerPoint presentations that are extremely text heavy and then doubles down on his or her time-wasting power by reading, verbatim, the colossal amount of text on each soul-crushing slide.

Don't be the PowerPoint Verbatim-ator. PowerPoint is supposed to complement the presentation, not dominate it. Use slides that have the least amount of text possible and remember people should be paying attention to YOU, not the screen.

I worked for a company for a while who mandated that speakers read from the presentation verbatim and had serious penalities if you did go off the presentation. They wanted to make sure you didn't say anything that wasn't company approved.