Town Hall Meetings

The new big boss at work (a reference to her position on the food chain and not her size) has been having town hall meetings. I avoid them like the plague. It’s not that I don’t want to hear what she has to say, or learn about what’s happening with our company. It’s that I value my time. I feel I can contribute more to the company by working. I might attend one of these meetings if they were a half an hour or so. But, most of the time they turn into one of two things:

• The 2 Hour Bitch Session – Why can’t the company buy me this or that, why do I have to pay any money for my insurance, why do I have to be random drug tested and you don’t, whaaa, whaaa, whaaa… on and on. – If I want to hear bitching, I can call my sister and ask her, “how’s your boss?”.

• The 2 Hour Pep Rally – Yah!!! Yes, we are laying people off, but isn’t it great that I got a bonus for cutting the budget. Yah!!! Aren’t we great? You make this company (true, but most of them make the company mediocre). Rah, rah, rah. – If I wanted to attend a pep rally I would go to one that had cheerleaders in little costumes (college or professional cheerleaders, not most the women from work in little costumes (there are two that I wouldn’t mind seeing in a cheerleader costume).

I understand that some people are required to attend, but I’m not. I am not that high on the food chain. I understand some people want to try to suck up to the big boss, but not me; I’m too busy brown nosing my immediate supervisor to worry about anyone above him. I understand that some people like to feel that someone with authority is listening to them, but I don’t; I find if you have good enough ideas, it will reach people above you.

I have no use for these Town Hall Meetings.