What do you do with Sr Managers who literally talk useless for 20 mins? The inefficiency makes me want to stab my eyeball out. She just completely rambles and obviously hasn’t checked slides

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Well, first off, don’t lose an eye over it.

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I'd ping a message like "we have 10 min left and x items still need to be covered."

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Yep. Be objective and tie them to the clock.

Don’t let her run the meeting then

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I want to just cut her off. And I try bringing the agenda items back but she completely goes 180 and starts rambling

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Bring your laptop and do other work while she is talking

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