- cross-posted to:
- adhd@lemmy.world
- autism@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- adhd@lemmy.world
- autism@lemmy.world
Don’t forget the loss of productivity in the hours before the meeting, spent worrying about it.
Let’s have 5 of these on a row during the most productive hours of the day between 8 and 12. Then have lunch were we share hilarious anecdotes and after that we feel too bleh to do our job. We will just sit around the office and talk more bull shit and then go home. Too bad we told Mrs x we will do y, who cares?
Sounds perfect doesn’t it.
Forgot the pre-meeting dip of preparing for meeting or being in waiting-mode.
Yup, that “what can I start in 10min” question really ruins a lot of productivity.
Yeah also true, you’re generally not gonna start doing anything if you know you’re getting interrupted anyways.
In my previous job, I was asked to break focus every 15 minutes to check my email and see if one of my coworkers was falling behind on dealing with a queue of tasks, then pitch in if he was. I hated the job in general, but that in particular just ruined any possibility of productivity. Hard for anyone, near impossible for someone with ADHD. Then I got blamed for falling behind on my work. And for being disorganized (we didn’t have a ticket tracker, hmmm).
Yup, and getting older makes it harder to catch up to that damn train of thoughts after that useless ass meeting interrupted them.
indeed
Some meetings dip into negative productivity.
100%. I try to keep working through them and only participate when my name is called.
I often skip meetings without agenda. If they don’t care to prepare a reasonable invitation, I don’t care to join. Also - I skip meetings where they announce stuff. Announcements should go to my inbox, so I can read them when ready, not when they think it’s suitable for them.
Agree!
We do this to ourselves first thing every day even though it’s been shown in studies that the start of the day is when you’re at your most productive.
I am definitely not at my most productive at the start of the day.
Same. I’ve found I’m most productive from like 3-7 pm, which sucks. I’d like to be productive in the morning or in the early afternoon instead of mostly past regular work hours.
Fix your sleep. I am tired of people like this. I have a Forrest Gump like colleague who calls me at 9pm asking me about a meeting we had at 9am (he was there and said yes to everything)
Meetings are part of the productive time.
If that’s true, consider yourself very lucky :)