Timeline for How can I influence a manager to not schedule team meetings during lunch?
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| Sep 19, 2019 at 9:21 | comment | added | Laurence | Seven paragraphs to say 'get over yourself' :-) Interesting suggestion from @nick012000 that a dislike for others' behaviour could be considered a protected disability. Lord help us all! | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 23:14 | comment | added | Cypher | -1. 7 paragraphs of assumptions, and not a single answer to the question. | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 15:17 | comment | added | nick012000 | Downvoting because the Americans with Disabilities Act explicitly says otherwise, and I think it's possible that the OP does have a disability. | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 11:50 | comment | added | Erik | @PeterTaylor probably just means "unique within the team" | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 11:20 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | Why do you say in the first paragraph that this is a "unique" adversion? | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 9:36 | comment | added | Falco | @CynicallyNaive I think there is still a difference between literally talking while you are simultaneously try to stuff food in your mouth. And talking while eating, which is very normal in our culture, where we talk between bites at dinner with the family. I think the second one is not really hindering the flow of information at all. | |
| Sep 18, 2019 at 7:41 | comment | added | Justin | @CynicallyNaive I was merely summarising Chris Stratton's excellent but, in my opinion, slightly verbose answer. I don't agree with some of the points made in it, but I still think it's a good answer. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 19:10 | comment | added | CynicallyNaive | Chris, I agree 100% that your sequencing would be better. I consider talking with food in one's mouth, especially if that denies important info, to be the offensive behavior. The company is catering the meeting, so eating while others talk isn't out of line, but surely the company can't be advocating eating and talking simultaneously. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 19:00 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | @CynicallyNaive - your claim that this behavior is "out of line" is a misunderstanding of the situation at the asker's company. Eating during the meeting is officially encouraged behavior. When management schedules a meeting during lunch and provides food at the same it, it is the specific intention that people will eat it. Otherwise they would sequence the activities, possibly having a brief meeting before taking covers off of the catering trays or otherwise inviting employees to begin partaking of the food. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 18:15 | comment | added | CynicallyNaive | @Justin It's not merely the OP's problem if the colleagues' behavior is limiting the effectiveness of the meeting. If they're obscuring important information, there's no doubt they're out of line. (If they're only being distracting to a reasonable observer, it's less clear-cut but they're still out of line.) | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 16:49 | history | edited | Chris Stratton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2019 at 16:29 | comment | added | DrMrstheMonarch | To add to this, One could also simply...ask to manager if they could schedule meetings not at lunch and bring up a reasonable reason such as, ‘i want an actual break’ ...but if the company is buying lunch...and if this is anything like my job...when the boss buys lunch the lunch break all of a sudden doubles or triples in length...at this point well. The OP should just get used to it. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 16:04 | history | edited | Chris Stratton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2019 at 16:02 | comment | added | Justin | TL;DR Your colleagues' eating behaviour may be subjectively disgusting, but it's your problem not theirs. You can't escape the meetings, so stop whining and learn to live with it. (I don't agree, btw; this is just my summary of the answer) | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 15:52 | history | answered | Chris Stratton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |