Meaningless Meetings

[indigothecat]

Wal*Mart is great at these meetings. I actually go to them (hopes no managers are reading this) because there's nothing else interesting to do. Folding clothes and straightening boxes is only entertaining for about 5 to 10 minutes tops.

[Sladkey83]

Your gorgeous

[rbrooks2007]

If they ever decide to make a sequel to the film 'Office Space' get yourself down as a staff writer.

[conservative608]

Why complain about meaningless meetings? Are they not a good break from work? Sometimes, I just tune out everything about the meeting that does not have anything to do with me or my responsibilities. I hear:

"Blah blah blah... And Steve is going to order 50 more boxes of paper towels. Tony will... Blah blah blah..."

I don't care what Tony has to do.

[heyawhaw]

umm ... bum fear, fab cure, fur beam, fame rub, cub frame, crab fume, MacBarf, bear cum, bare fuc am I bored? noooooooooooooooooooooo well, a little ...

[zxcvbnmjhgfdsa1]

@heyawhaw use that as your poem for the coworker it totally works

[rodeney123]

Try solving Pi. It's easy. Just cube it. Beats doodling.

[onyana]

cubefarm anagram cab fume, cub fame.

[AndreSm95]

I think you are Great Cube Kim!

Keep the videos coming.

[camillaparker]

I'd never thought of drawing the alphabet on the roof of my mouth with my tongue. Brilliant. My next meeting might now be bearable. Thanks!!!!

[evancortez2]

Thing work differently in Texas

[Antiks72]

We should give Texass back to Mexico.

[MaKiNthaMoViE]

Lol!!

[numptyontheloose]

Kim I'm wondering - is this purely for entertainment or do you REALLY work in a cube thingy?

[SYNDICADO]

My boss got mad when i told him to GET TO THE POINT TODAY. oh well.

[Lavenderrose73]

Well, guess we all know how he got HIS position! : P

[krazykizza]

A* Material.

[chawness]

Do one on these idiots that bring their kids to work ALL DAY LONG.

PS. You're HOTT

[cubefarm]

I DID an episode about the idiotic "Bring Your Child to Work Day"!! I can't post the link in here, but look at my YouTube cubefarm channel -- it's in the video screen. :)

[GHynson]

Is that a Voodoo doll with a pen stuck in it on your desk?

[cubefarm]

close - it's a pen holder in the shape of a dead person. I love it! I discovered it when I did the Holiday Gadget Guide video, and the company let me keep it. It makes me happy to stab my pen in there.

[rbrooks2007]

@cubefarm My sister bought my girlfriend a joke paper holder like that - only it was two people, one facing down, one facing up and both hinged at the waist. I only noticed it after her father had visited!

[kwcoffee]

I have a meeting tomorrow, LOL, hopefull they'll remember to make coffee this time. My favorite thing is the motovational games they ask for "volunteers" for. nothing builds teamwork like a good of charades. (sigh)

[fustymusty]

What's worse than a meaningless meeting?  The person who tries to drag the meeting out longer. As if one hour, after work is bad enough, but no! Someone always has to stretch it into two hours. Don't these people have a life?

[davizm]

I think they schedule meetings around here just to be the one that reserves the conference room. It's kind of like a power trip I think, like you're the chosen one for the day if it's your name on the reservation list, you can even trade days with some one for favors.

[djmachede]

LMAO! I can't begin to tell you how much this one struck a chord. I just showed a co-worker of mine and she thinks I wrote the script. I love it. I truly know the meaning of the meaningless meeting.

Keep up the great work. See you all soon.

[trime1851]

Good Stuff! When the bullshit gets too deep, its too bad that due to "political correctness" you can tell the truth.

[mightym1]

MS Outlook is the scourge of humanity. It allows folks to "impose" meeting appointments in your calendar without your consent. Ugghh!

[HollyToadstool]

Your poem drove me to tears, Kim. *snfff*

(...No, I don't know if that's a good thing either ;D)

Thank you for the video! :)

Holly

[UnavailableUserID]

Been there 4 years and never had any meetings... until last week...

The ONLY meeting I went to was so they could tell myself and 48 other people we were being laid off...

[cubefarm]

I'm really sorry to hear that; I hope they provide ya'll with a decent severance package....sheesh, that's enough to make you dread meetings for the rest of your life...that's enough to make a person empty the supply closet (not suggesting, just sayin...)

[benomics]

Kim...committees, subcommittees, workgroups within those subcommittees!

[MacBookGuy91]

That was funny thanks for the laugh. I think that meeting to make a meeting is very pointless what ever happened to email. Great Episode.

[RedZone1]

"The Romans did not create a great empire by having meetings...they did it by killing all those who opposed them." I used to have that on my cube wall. Until it was deemed offensive and possibly hostile.

[cubefarm]

that makes me smile. I may have to post it on the Cube News 1 wall :)

[therealclamknuckle]

Oh Kim...

[robertantonnyc]

LOL. Love you Kim. Can you also do the poetry over the phone? I might try it.

[themightylex]

Kim

What do I do about people in my office that take every instruction or criticism as a personal attack? I can't point out that they are doing something in the wrong without it becoming a discussion about negative energy and other hippy crap.They go on about how they need encouragement while continuing to do a bad job. Everyone DOES NOT get a gold star. Can you help with this?

Thanks

Lex

P.S. loved the poetry, anything that says "stab you in the eye" is good quality.

[drunkskunk005]

I hate being human. My cats never have meetings.

[Shushit55]

What's with the CG background?

[tmatthews95]

Blank stares work for me.

[silvertongue]

Go on ebay, look up rocket balloons. Let one of those go in a metting, never EVER get invited back.

[stunthumb]

Hehe so true, great video.

The last meeting I went to I decided to see what would happen if I got right behind the idea, offered tons of help and support, then closed with ''I'm really looking forward to seeing how this pans out''.

Try it, I haven't been invited to a meeting in 8 months!.

[rhythm7a]

I find that if you are a frequent passer of gas you can cut down on your meeting time by 43 per cent.

[orionpk]

lol.. it tickles !

[cubefarm]

it DOES, doesn't it? I speak the Truth :)

[shellymallory]

I think I dated "Tell me something interesting."  Finally I did. I said, "Bye." ;-)

Kim, you are too cute for words. :)

[BenLoka]

Haha!! Beautiful poetry - it warms my cold cold heart.

Lonely shepherd phantom crestfallen swirly.

Silence.

[cubefarm]

bravo!

[BillyBughead]

I love meetings. So much better than having to listen to customers yell, "Well I don't KNOW what's wrong with your software! It's broken! FIX IT!" Anything that keeps me off the phone and away from my desk is just fine. I still get paid to sit in one of those nice leather chairs in the conference room.

[hichcoc]

I know..very futile.

[AgentJayZ]

Kim, you always hurt my face... because my smile just won't go away.

Why, oh, why do I love you so?

I don't know, but I do.

(that's not meant to be poetry... that should be obvious).

Cubegirl, It has been love at first sight!

[robtran]

"Tell me something interesting."

"Ok. Your wife prefers it from behind."

End of problem...as well as job, most likely.

Kim, you forgot the Bizarro-Backwards World of.....

MEETINGS TO PLAN OTHER MEETINGS

Yes, they happen. All. The. Time.

AAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCKKKKK!!!

[freddieelm]

You sure like to keep your viewers waiting. Welcome back!

[nonoctave]

I didn't know you had such a talent for poetry.

[princessdana99]

Another way to pass the time and stay awake during meaningless meetings: dirty little fantasies about your hot co-workers. :) Works for me!

[lostindisillusion]

i honestly have no idea why i watch these videos...

but i do! haha

[P00P0STER0US]

lol

[AgentJayZ]

Whoa! ... stupidest, and bestest name ever!

Wish I woulda thought of it!

[johnnyfnhollywood]

Always funny and Beautiful as well.

[gabrielized]

cubefarm cub fam. be far. mabecufu. lol

[cubefarm]

fame curb :)

[kwcoffee]

me c ur fab

[zurich75mwp]

Yeah! Cube News is back.

Where are we going to see another Adventures of Cube Girl?

[craigvdodge]

Also works good for "tell me something interesting": The average human adult male body contains five liters of blood.

[Dog480]

Keep on rockin' girl!

[tommygu444]

I'm not a big fan of when people write in the comments what was said in the video, but :

'stab you in the eye' definitely brightened my day !

[ManTigerBMW]

Kim -- Post a video response or 2, to a CommunityChannel video and you will have 100,000 viewers in NOW TIME!

[jx14aby]

*Standing ovation!*

[lynnecw]

hahaha could you do a video about job interviews?

[SYNDICADO]

we sit thru weekly meetings and listen to my boss First start off with a joke. then an analogy. Then after thirty min. he realizes hes forgot to make his point. THEN HE REMINDS US OF NOT WASTING TIME!

[trafficdreamer]

Here are some Anagrams : carb fume, cream buf, facer bum. That was fun!

[Ninja187Rules]

meeting for meetings about meeting are rediculous. Let's have a meeting about that!

[godeep89]

My favorite are the weekly "coordination" meetings. If I really need to coordinate with someone to get my job done, why wouldn't I just pick up the phone, or shoot an email? Why would I store up everything all week just so I could participate in this meeting? Perhaps worst of all is when the organizers of said "coordination" meetings refuse to realize when there doesn't need to be any more coordination and have these meetings anyway.

[grantboerner]

I stopped getting invited to the weekly meeting when I started to insist on accompanying said weekly meeting with my very own weekly improvisational interpetive dance ... no dance class prerequisite ... done.

[cubefarm]

oh my, how I would love to see the interpretive dance. Um, feel free to upload it at any time, Grant :)

[grantboerner]

... next time I'm 'inspired' I'll see that it's preserved in moving images and share ...

[seethesarcasm]

cubefarm = fab!

[wrt7]

yes.......... new video...........:)

[krazykizza]

You got the take a break thing right. I have my iTunes playing in my ears, and I am busy typing my work. People always peer on my laptop screen as a source of entertainment or demand some sort of attention. Im not a clown, im not here to entertain!

[y1ink]

damn i've got a meeting tomorrow and i'm hosting it, lol

[cubefarm]

Bring snacks for all - food will endear you to everyone :)

[y1ink]

Luckily it was the mgr birthday today and we had a variety of cookies including chocolate ones and also flapjacks so it was all good!

Great advice will use this technique if I'm roped into doing another meeting : )

[RetrofitIam]

Let's meet on this topic going forward.... I hate the phrase "going forward"

[tjf4375]

Hehe nice one Kim, that's good advice, can't wait to use it next time! :o)

[Robert697]

dang .. where were you before I was voted in to lead the bi-weekly meeting for 2009? I spent 2006-2008 pretending I cared when I could have been "taking notes" doing anagrams.

[ilovesugar2]

silent air... the best air. I'm not a cube dweller yet but I can feel your pain when we have pointless assemblies that you must go to. Or the Fros classes about 'campus life'

[ZacherYT]

Yeah, I've had meetings to schedule a meeting... joy.

[PeterAppleseed]

LOL I used to misunderstand this whole process as bureacracy or commitee-hell. I still can't really figure it out.