Snoozefest

So I attended a meeting this morning. It’s a rare occasion for me to accept a meeting invite since I think they’re all a huge waste of time. But a friend was presenting and I promised I would go to support her.

Yesterday the attendees received an agenda and presentation materials to review before the actual meeting. I read with interest all the new things coming up within the IT department. We’re getting an updated version of MS Office, there is a new trick to fixing a problem I’ve been having with laptops and our migration away from the previous owners network domain will soon be complete.

Then at the actual meeting, I listened with little interest the exact same things, word for word I just read in the presentation materials the day before. One by one these boring people (sorry friend), came up and read verbatim right from the slide. I just don’t see the point of these snoozefests. I read everything I needed before the actual meeting in a fraction of the time.

Then there are the  morons who ask questions by just restating something that was just said a moment ago. Speaker: “We’ll be migrating the domain over by the end of March.” Attendee: “Question. So when will you be migrating the domain over?” I wanted to slap him.

All these presenters should take a lesson from Steve Jobs. I like his style of presenting, he’s energetic and gets the audience involved. The visuals are creative and you never see him drone on by just reading what’s on the slide.