Corporate meeting etiquette - what would you do?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

It's Monday. You need to schedule a meeting for Friday with two other people. You check their calendars and find a date/time that appears to work for everybody involved. You send out an invite for a meeting on Friday at 10am.

It's Thursday night, 9pm. You log in to your work email just to check things out. You open your meeting notice and click on "View Invitee Status". You expect to see "Accepted" or "Declined" by each of the two people you invited. Instead, both individuals are marked "No Response".

Do you reschedule the meeting? Do you cancel it? Do you show up at 10am at the assigned conference room and wait for people who didn't actually tell you they'd show up? Or do you call them in the morning with a teasing #######?

I reschedule. I recently had one coworker tell me she didn't think a reply was needed to an invite. I think it is. There's a reply button on it for a reason. You accept, decline, propose an alternate time or delegate. Those are the choices. Pick one.

But that's what I think. What do you think?

[almaty 19]

yes it is needed..she lacks professional knowledge and needs a refresher course of 3 hours...

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Why 3 hours?

[almaty 19]

3 hours is a great form of punishment in the corporate world..where 2 hrs is punitive ..3 hours and more is 'hell on earth"

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

3 hours is a great form of punishment in the corporate world..where 2 hrs is punitive ..3 hours and more is 'hell on earth"

So the next time my manager suggests an all-day 'soft skills' training course I should assume I'm being punished?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yes it is. That's the whole point of scheduling meetings that way.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Yes it is. That's the whole point of scheduling meetings that way.

I've run into two coworkers in the last month, both in different parts of the company, who don't answer invites. I thought maybe the rules had changed and no one told me

[almaty 19]

3 hours is a great form of punishment in the corporate world..where 2 hrs is punitive ..3 hours and more is 'hell on earth"

So the next time my manager suggests an all-day 'soft skills' training course I should assume I'm being punished?

yes, you are ..it is the corporate world verison of the "rack"

[Y's_habibitk 2]

I'd give a courtesy call. Then I would kindly suggest that when they get an invite, they should f'ing reply!

Good call about 2 vs 3 hours...anything over 2 IS hell on earth.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

3 hours is a great form of punishment in the corporate world..where 2 hrs is punitive ..3 hours and more is 'hell on earth"

So the next time my manager suggests an all-day 'soft skills' training course I should assume I'm being punished?

yes, you are ..it is the corporate world verison of the "rack"

A few years ago I had to sit through 3-days of "Conflict Management". That really did feel like punishment.

[Teacher Mark 53]

Too fvcking lazy to hit accept. They should be fired and H-1B workers should be brought in as replacements.

Edited February 6, 2009 by Joe Six-Pack

[chri'stina 190]

If it's something that people are supposed to do in your company(click on the yes/no etc), then I can see why you'd reschedule for "no response". But I wouldn't know what I would do unless I know more about how things works there with the invite system.

3 hours is a great form of punishment in the corporate world..where 2 hrs is punitive ..3 hours and more is 'hell on earth"

lol

[almaty 19]

you were being punished and subjected to a warning..'f##k up and don't be a team player..and there is a week course for you, next "

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yes it is. That's the whole point of scheduling meetings that way.

I've run into two coworkers in the last month, both in different parts of the company, who don't answer invites. I thought maybe the rules had changed and no one told me

Here people click "tentative", which is totally useless. To my mind it means "I'll should be there - but I'm expecting a call" or something, when in reality it means "I have no intention of going, but I don't want to say so".

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Yes it is. That's the whole point of scheduling meetings that way.

I've run into two coworkers in the last month, both in different parts of the company, who don't answer invites. I thought maybe the rules had changed and no one told me

Here people click "tentative", which is totally useless. To my mind it means "I'll should be there - but I'm expecting a call" or something, when in reality it means "I have no intention of going, but I don't want to say so".

Really, I'd rather they hit delegate instead.