{"id":930,"date":"2007-05-17T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/annoying-aspects-of-meetings\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T18:10:12","slug":"annoying-aspects-of-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/annoying-aspects-of-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoying Aspects Of Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inc.com offers a quick article about annoying meeting items &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,272839,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Study Reveals Why Meetings Are So Unbearable<\/a>.&nbsp; From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Of 1,037 full- or part-time workers polled, 27 percent ranked disorganized, rambling meetings as their top frustration, followed by 17 percent who said they were annoyed by peers who interrupt and try to dominate meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, respondents considered BlackBerry use less intrusive than people falling asleep during a meeting \u20ac\u201d 9 percent of respondents were bothered by co-workers nodding off, compared to just 5 percent who said they get frustrated by others checking e-mail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Checking email?&nbsp; That makes me laugh since a certain someone in our company <strike>Rock Star<\/strike>&nbsp;has been known to do such things.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve never encountered anyone sleeping in a meeting.&nbsp; That action certainly strikes me as a career-limiting move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inc.com offers a quick article about annoying meeting items &#8211; New Study Reveals Why Meetings Are So Unbearable.&nbsp; From the article: Of 1,037 full- or part-time workers polled, 27 percent ranked disorganized, rambling meetings as their top frustration, followed by 17 percent who said they were annoyed by peers who interrupt and try to dominate meetings. Surprisingly, respondents considered BlackBerry use less intrusive than people falling asleep during a meeting \u20ac\u201d 9 percent of respondents were bothered by co-workers nodding off, compared to just 5 percent who said they get frustrated by others checking e-mail. Checking email?&nbsp; That makes me laugh since a certain someone in our company Rock Star&nbsp;has&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/annoying-aspects-of-meetings\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-team-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-f0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":623,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/stats-on-gen-y-web-use\/","url_meta":{"origin":930,"position":0},"title":"Stats On Gen Y Web Use","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Inc.com's article Seven Out of 10 Employees Admit to Abusing Office Computers, Phones relays some stats from a recent Harris Interactive survey. 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