If there is one thing that drives me nuts it’s people who can’t manage to keep conference calls in their allotted time.  I had someone schedule a call for 12:00-12:30 today.  The call ended at 12:59 only after I told the host that I had another call scheduled for 1:00 (and one of the people there still wanted to keep going).  The group that called the meeting had no agenda, and no plan.  Further, the majority of what they wanted could have been handled via email.  If they’d sent us their questions ahead of time, we could have answered most of it and spent our time ironing out the important stuff.

I can’t stress enough how important it is to have a good agenda for a conference call and to alot enough time to get the work done.  It’s disrespectful of everyone involved to do otherwise and to just keep going after the alotted time has elapsed.

It also pissed me off because it meant that I didn’t get lunch until 2:15 (which is the most important part of the problem).