Alright Republicans

[Hillary pays minimum wage]

How often does your office have meetings?  How long are they?

[DavidB.]

What office?

[Hillary pays minimum wage]

What office?

How often do you have meetings at work?

[kcguy]

Alright, I'm not the person being addressed, but I'll answer anyway.

This past week I had 3 meetings.  Two lasted about 1/2 hour each, and the third lasted close to 1.5 hours.

This coming week, I have 2 meetings that I'm aware of.  Each will last about 45 minutes.

Every once in a while, I'll have a week with no meetings at all.

[kcguy]

Or did you mean company-wide meetings?  My company has about 5 a year, and they tend to last about 90 minutes.

[Hillary pays minimum wage]

We're selling a newsletter at work addressing that meetings shouldn't last more than 7 minutes so I wondered what you thought.  Democrats are welcome to discuss this too.  Shorter meetings are better in my experience because some managers and supervisors like to talk for 4 hours straight and nothing new is addressed.  We have meetings for an hour every other Friday.  This week the manager talked about how someone splattered in the bathroom and it went between the toilet seat onto the wall and into the sink.  A message was sent to everyone for the culprit to come to the office.  Tampons are being thrown into the toilet too apparently and the girls aren't flushing.  I know at times I tend to have a fascination with toilet humor but this actually happened.  We also have short meetings to go over our numbers in sales.  I'm a telemarketer. 

[kcguy]

Wow.  I don't think I've ever had bathroom etiquette come up in a meeting in the 12 years I've been with my company.  If such a thing did become an issue, it would probably be a global e-mail.

Our meetings tend to be 100% work-related.  Occasionally, we'll have non-work topics come up, such as "Do we want to do a gift exchange Christmas lunch?", but even topics like that won't last more than about 10 minutes.

Not all of the meetings I mentioned are in-house.  For example, the 2 meetings coming up this week are with our client and some of their other consultants.  There will only be 2 people from my company on those conference calls.