ExpertDabbler

In all these years in the IT industry, what is it that I have grown to hate with all my heart?

Meetings.

I mean all flavors of it - status meetings, review meetings, weekly meetings, group conference calls ..you name it.

I understand meetings are a necessary evil for the Leads and a very important evil for Project Manager types. But I think it simply sucks off the developer’s productivity. Most of them end up doodling in their scribble pads in these meetings.

Team meetings are places where the Manager talks and the rest listen and manage
appropriate, applicable, relevant responses
A few questions are asked in the conf. calls which again are answered by the Project Manager. The poor guy is also responsible or lending out ‘Ok’ and ‘yes’ at appropriate intervals.

In my previous organization they would have a meeting every Monday mornings. There will be about 20 members and the meetings would easily stretch to 90-100 minutes. It was a flat team so some people would use that chance to settle political scores too.
I simply could not digest losing 100 minutes of productive time on the first day of the working week. Unless I had anything to say, I usually dodged these meetings…

The present organization insists on Conf. calls every alternate days. My part will be like 5-10 minutes but the meeting goes on for 60-90 mins. I dodge here whenever possible too:) But sometimes there is an expectation that we should sit through these meetings. Like today:(

I have one call at 6:30 and then an other one as soon as I finish that… Gosh when will I go home?

Nowadays am sick of these…

I just want to quit this job but soon the thought of bank balance on the last day of the month makes me come back the next day…

India’s media houses rate the country’s leading educational institutions, private sector employers, banks and financial institutions, films etc. What’s more they conduct surveys on just about anything when they run short of content.

Have any of us come across a body to rate the quality and objectivity of the news portals, TV channels, magazines, newspapers in India?

The only data we have is the Audit Bureau of Circulation /Viewership ratings which says only about the commerical aspects and nothing about the quality of the content.

I think its high time we evolved a rating system on various parameters for the media houses as well.

How many of these media houses can stand the scrutiny of a truly competent and independent body?

I would love to see the likes of SUN TV, Jaya TV, Hindu, The Times of India etc kicked in the butt for biased reporting.

What do you think folks?