What kind of topics should we do next??

People who discuss future meetings in a meeting should all just be sent to an island where they can all live happily ever after in a never-ending meeting and leave the rest of us alone

Meetings are very important, because being in a meeting means you do not have to work. Online meetings are even more important because while being in an online meeting, you have time to do purposeful things. Like doing laundry, taking the dog out for a walk, go to the movies, make dinner, or sleep.

My last job had one 10 minute group call a week to make sure everyone was still on the same page about our work project. It was great.

God I love this channel so much, one of my favourite things on KZfaq right now. It’s always so high quality and engaging.

"At a surface level, you're getting paid to hangout with your friends." Dear God.

Meetings are a great way to feel productive without actually being all that productive. If you don't think about it too hard, it's just free productivity up for grabs

Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your meetings!

I have this IT meeting 5 times per week where they are developing a new software for a department i have literally nothing to do with. I have had about 40 of them and at no point did i contribute something meaningful and I have never been asked a single question. I have however completed multiple pokemon rom hacks on my gameboy emulator.

I literally showed this in a meeting today and we were all dying 😂 Now we are spending the whole meeting watching this channel

I also feel like there's a taboo on declining a meeting invite; if someone invites me to a meeting I think adds 0 value and I decline, suddenly i'm the bad guy for declining...

This is kind of like those old Daily Show correspondent reports - Dan is literally a modern day Colbert lmao

I left my last job because I had meetings everyday, hated that crap. Tried to talk and tell them some of those meetings could of be turned into emails. They were like… nah. Lol and I’m like bye :)

i love that this whole channel is based on the fact that the work certain people insist we have to do or else society will collapse is at least partially bs work

Having worked somewhere where communication wasn't considered necessary at all, changes weren't announced or explained, I'm firmly on the side of SOME MEETINGS ARE ESSENTIAL. It can be really frustrating when you don't know what's going on and learn crucial information just by coincidence. And as someone who hates unnecessary social interaction, I think the meetings should be restricted to what is necessary and essential

Meeting inflation is directly related to bullshit jobs and departments seeking to validate their value in a large organization. You should do an exposé into bullshit job roles (other than consulting which you already covered).

GameStop is formally closing its doors in my country, Ireland. Maybe Eric needed to schedule more meetings.

I hold a 2 hour meeting everyday with 15 people invited to which nobody is required to come unless they need something from me. There have never been more than 3 people on the call and they usually sync with "ok, you go first, I'll just drop by in an hour". However there are rarely days when nobody comes (though often it doesn't take the 2 full hours to get through the issues). My position dictates that my time is for these invited people, so I am always there, cause my input is often needed to progress on stuff. But because they don't have to be there - they have 2 hours of time reserved to be productive without being dragged into other meetings unless they really need them. THIS is how you do meetings.

This video took 3 playthroughs before I was properly satisfied that all of the great editing, writing, and performance had been appreciated. This might be my favourite yet. It doesn't matter the topic, Dan and the good work_ team can make a bloody funny piece.

I’m an administrator in my company and real talk, I wouldn’t have enough stuff to fill my 8-hour day if I didn’t have meetings. Meetings are literally 60% of my job lol

My work started having a mandatory 30 minute morning meeting 6 months ago. New boss wanted to make us like the other districts to make us 'simpler to manage'... Thing is, we're blue collar. Not just that, we're public sector building maintenance in rural bumfuck nowhere. Yes urban districts that are 10-15 mobile teams working out of a central base, with significant overlap in duties, can need a morning meeting to plan. But 4 teams working out of 4 separate workshops, quite a few kilometers from each other, with very little overlap in duties, does not need a daily meeting. And because we're not allowed to use personal vehicles while working, and not allowed to take home work vehicles; those based at the other facilities have to go to their facility, clock in, get their work truck, go to my facility where the morning meeting takes place, then go back to their own facility to start actually working after the meeting. With how many hours we're wasting, we could hire 1-2 full time technicians for the price of the morning meetings and all associated travel on the clock. Imagine the government straight up hiring two people to do literally nothing but drink coffee, thats what our meetings are. But the boss is happy.

I don't know, I feel like my daily hour long standup to discuss the work our team is doing that day (it's the same we've been doing for the last 3 days) really helps crush my spirits and put me in that corporate dystopian mood to be productive for my employer.

This channel is like me during a meeting I actually prepared for It’s popping off 👌

You are freaking brilliant. Please never stop.

But Dan, if we get rid of meetings what will all those big shot consultants do?

This video is just too good! A single like button doesn't do it justice. As a project manager, real talk. We know and don't want to either, but sometimes you need one to get on the same page or make a decision concerning multiple departments or expertise. I hate them but need them. The thing that works for me is asking special fields to connect with other fields if needed, so there is no need for a big group. Big meetings cost a LOT of money.

Of course we need meetings in order to create synergy and optimize work flow.

I am LITERALLY very happy every time a video like this is willed into existence

GOD I'm a PA and the amount of meetings companies force me to attend that talk about the teams work etc and are of ZERO relevance to my job booking meetings and arranging diaries is unreal. It's an hr of my time when I am already busy AF to sit there and look the bored I am as you force me to be on cam so I can't even multitask at the same time. And do not get me started about the floorbrief meetings where basically the managers cascades info he's got in an email from the SLT that gets emailed to you afterwards anyway.

The amount of seniors 10X devs that are trapped in having 5 meetings every day is mind-blowing, just imagine putting them to actually sit and do some actual code. It's like management wanted to have a "guy from dev team" all the time right there in case of some dumb question arises. Solution, management should get more technical knowledgeable to be able to decide things in a very high level, and then call the senior dev to see if the idea is doable.

Best way to ensure quick meetings, everyone must be in plank position for every moment they wanna talk

Editing was ridiculously good

this channel is my new addiction SO GOOD. GOOD WORK. NICE

I am tempted to post this to our empty teams channel, since almost everything is a meeting. Unfortunately I don't know whether the erotic nature of this video fits into the culture of our team. Maybe I should schedule a meeting about that.

I find it hilarious as I'm watching this and being in a role where my main task is to book as many meetings as I can

I had 19 meetings Monday and Tuesday this week, some 90 minutes. Also had a few deadlines, unexpected fires to put out, and 150 emails per day. Got paid for 16 hrs. Fukin obnoxious.

The best way to end meetings is to just play video games during the meetings, trust me you won't miss anything and they don't expect you to get anything done while Dan from the other department talks about his project for 45 minutes that will never have anything to do with me.... I love meetings now

This channel is the definition of "just make good content to get views". Every video keeps my attention and me watching at 1x speed purely through the power of good writing and comedy. Love y'all and keep up the good work!

Man your work is amazing!! I love every single video of this channel, the humour is so great, so many high quality green screens shots and actually insightful content! Keep it up!!

I have been in productive meetings, those are fine. The issue i have with is the unproductive ones, in which you're invited and forced to attend and you dont have anything to do/say there. Or the monologues (only one person talking) that could be an email. Or meetings where overburdened people are required to attend, are essential to them but cant properly participate because they're doing something else. But yeah, we need a meeting revolution. What about monday at 11am?

Hell ya. So glad to see this format being continued so strongly!

I heard this saying once that I live by: No agenda, no attenda. If you didn't put in the absolute minimum effort to describe why you need my time, you clearly don't need it. And if you did put an agenda, I can decide if it's worth my time (it probably isn't).

I’m applying to jobs rn and these videos are preparing me for the workforce 💪

5:08 this is so relatable holy shit

The layers of creativity in this video. Unbelievable.

Whenever I'm sad or need a pick me up, I go to this video. The timing, the humour, the easter eggs - just pure gold. Love ya work.

If you hate meetings- other people did this to you, not the meeting itself. I have SO MUCH to say about meetings as someone who designs them for a large corporation. It’s the entire reason I get paid. The number one reason people have bad meetings is the organizer does not decide on the purpose of the meeting before they have it, OR the purpose they think they have is lame. Read “The Art Of Gathering” by Priya Parker before you sweat off meetings completely.

At one point I was working for a company called Finning, it’s heavy machinery and I was a mechanic apprentice. I once had to drive out to a location for a job and I was in a truck with my boss. For the hour long drive he was in a meeting on the phone but it was connected to the Bluetooth in the truck so I could hear the entire call. They literally talked about basically nothing and spent probably 20 minutes discussing what they should discuss in their next meeting. And I’m serious when I say they basically discussed nothing it was such surface level stuff it was not even worth having a meeting over. It was literally like they where just trying to waste time. And they would have these meetings like 4 times a day it was crazy. The mechanics had to participate in some of them too and they where literally meetings about nothing and they would go on forever.

This right here is, unironically, top tier journalism.

I had four work meetings last Monday. At least two of them should have been an email.

So glad I have discovered this channel. Binge watched all the videos.

My IT team had to join the warehouse meetings every morning for 15mins. Nothing ever involved us. They talked about what deliveries they expected and what to pack or rework. Maybe 5 times out of the entire year a tidbit was relevant to us but was easily explained in an email. Never essential. Then we had our weekly IT meetings to tell everyone what you were working on....we rarely had collaborative projects. It was all irrelevant information needed only by the analyst tasked with the job. One guy would spent a minimum of 30 fucking mins. I normally relayed my information in one sentence. You were also not allowed to do work during the meeting. At a different job I had to drive 5 hours one way to meet in a new large facility that was being built to only say one phrase the whole meeting 'I Agree'.

Love the Private detective look

I love your sense of humor, bro. I also think we should have less meetings, most meetings should be emails. Meetings are necessary, yes, but not that much. I think at the very very core, a medium-large sized portion of people in middle and upper managment like to justify their work with the amount of meetings they have. So they can show their superiors that they are having meetings and therefore justify they are "working", the mind logic that I think they have is "more meetings, the more productive I am" which is absurd but that's my conclusion from experience. They should be managing the work flow/times/production but instead of actually managing they have meetings to display their "management" in front of everyone. I also think it's about control. Most managers think that meetings allow them to have control over stuff, some become control freaks and want very large and boring meetings with very minute/dull details and actually end up losing control and productivity because meetings are very unproductive if you have a lot of them. Some people even quit because of too much meetings and control freak managers. All this comes from experience, I've seen this for over a decade now

I've watched this video everday for the past week. You found a great niche man. I can't wait to see this channel get huge!

Waiting for this channel to blow up. With this quality any day now. Well it's already big, but this deserves millions of views!

Immaculate. Belly-laugh level. Highly underrated channel, thanks for continuing to bless us

These videos have me hooked, amazing work!

This came out at the most perfect time, just finished my day with a meeting. 2 days, a total of 13 hours worth of meetings. I love consultancy

Hooray for the KH3 reference! I work as a translator for the communications department of a university computing Center. We have a meeting once a week and it lasts an average of 15 minutes. I don't mind having the quick check in and hearing what's in the pipeline. But if I needed to sit in on a 1-2 hour long staff meeting where I am explicitly not needed, I would be infuriated.

lol he was playing "the defenders of Moscow" in the background 🤣🤣🤣

You're a genious man. Love your work. It's Good Work

As someone who's worked in corporate America over the last decade this video simultaneously had me crying and laughing at the same time. Definitely one of my favorites from your channel.

One way to make meetings productive for everyone is to limit amount of people to minimum amount, so no one is forced to sit through a meeting pretending to listen. And if you really need poeple to report to you, they usually can do it in a couple of written sentences in Slack instead of yet another meeting. As a team lead, I have witnessed how productivity rises when you just let your people work instead of choking them with pointless catch-ups.

Brilliant !!!!

I like the editing of this video !! So much effort put in

I love these videos so much, keep it up!

Lotta effort in these videos. Love em.

Great video man!

I had a job at a university that basically consisted of meetings, pre-meeting meetings, post-meeting meetings, meetings to plan meetings, and meetings where the only decision was to schedule a follow-up meeting. The job itself was pretty chill because hardly any projects ever moved forward because of the office politics. But it got soul-crushingly clear that actually improving education took a back seat to the $$$.

The best part about Microsoft Teams is that I can just mute the mic, turn off the camera, and do all the paperwork billing, emailing, and organizing I've been behind on all week. Although somtimes it is akward when I respond to an email thread that includes people in the ongoing Teams meeting. But my position makes money for the company, so they can only talk so much shit.

This is probably one of the best channels on youtube right now. Keep the good work (ba dum tss)

came here from the pre-meeting clarity session where we've clarified... the tentative meeting structure for our weekly retrospective meetings. As a software developer, I sometimes manage a whole week without writing any code. Screw this, I'm going to start having a nice coin flip with which I decide to decline meeting requests.

I have been silently wondering this for about a year now of my active 2-year career. At one point I was like: Maybe I just dont get it because I’m not in business for long enough. Now I realize that because I’m not yet indoctrinated by this belief that I can still see reality for what it is 😅

These videos are amazing. Good work!

The worst are team status meetings, where you have to report what you are doing and nobody listens anyway

this content has essentially no ceiling. You have something really special here dude.

Love this, good work!

I was an intern in a company that made a meeting every day at 9 am for like half an hour. Nothing ever seemed important enough to be a meeting instead of an email.

Here's a thing I realized about meetings - if you excuse yourself and then just never come back very few people will ever question this. The bigger the company the truer this statement.

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We should really discuss this video in a meeting, to figure out the consensus opinion on meetings.

incredible as per usual!!

Honestly the only meetings I enjoyed were daily ~30min standups to just cover what we did, what we should tackle, if we struggled in anything and our goals for the day. This was at my internship at a game dev studio and it was the only group meeting of the day, and it was to touch base over what has to be done on that day. It was actually productive because one person was assigned a specific problem and we touched base all together because, like all computer people, we sometimes forget to talk to people at all. Some days our standups were mercifully short because we didnt have much to report. Other times they were long because something important came up, or a new project, we release an update, etc. This *can* be done through a slack chat, but since this was a smaller studio, about 15 or so people, the morning standup was one of my favourite parts of the day.

Amazing video! Kind of content that feels like has massive numbers of views.

YES. Thank you for coming to my TED talk

I don't leave comments a lot but this stuff slaps guys keep it up. Had to schedule a personal meeting and be sad when I saw there wasn't 3 years of content to catch up on.

This had me crackinggg uppp

Being a former city councillor, many meetings we spent catching up on the history of previous meetings.

Good Work and Meditations for the anxious mind are the two best channels on this platform; no debate

what a great, original format!

i am absolutely here for the weird comrade trenchcoat vibes, love your stuff

Outstanding quality!

This channel is going to skyrocket. Lots of inspiration here.

Holy crap your humor is awesome, Instant sub.

This is quickly becoming my favorite KZfaq channel.

Stumbled on a video and have found myself in a Good Work Rabbit hole. Having a great time!

When the GameStop guy mentioned meetings as time to hang out with friends makes me think of so much leadership trying to promote a family culture.

Your channel makes my day everytime.

Bro the quality of this funny video! Yessss!