Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Cost of a meeting for an external tool.

Let’s see,,,  Another meeting…    How many of us are creating income…   CPA – 4, electronic – 6 maybe, Radio PA (is that a profit center?) ,   Top Flight Media?  development – 4?    14+heads * 1.5 hours = 21 hours of lost selling time.   Why don’t they invite a focus group of contributors and not foot the payroll bill for the meeting?    Are ‘Unscheduled Meetings” calculated into the $190,000 (or whatever Central PA Biz Rag announced today)  cutbacks for ’09?

 

The other attendees are overhead anyway and can spend their life in meetings.

 

How about they do the meeting without a microphone and reduce the medical bills from migrains from listening to feedback screeches (do we have anyone onboard with A/V experience? Maybe we can get an intern from HACC to help us out there) and save the cost of the electricity.

 

Speaking of which… I happened to get in about 7:30 today and the board room was lighted like Vegas and two studios were powered up but vacant…   Does anyone have responsibility for the light switches here???    Who in the building has fiscal responsibility for stupid expenses?

 

Why isn’t this meeting a “click here” demo (or video if they want me to teach them how to use a digital camera) and an online Q&A?   Or are we all being issued computers for the meeting so we can experience the “look and feel”?    Maybe it’s better in a group so the presenter can maintain control and things not become a ‘critical review’.     Did we budget a redesign expense if the critics cut it apart?

 

I didn’t get the memo about when the website is being shared internally for us to see before the release date.

 

Would write more but it’s too soon after dinner.

 

Please don’t forward to an in-house friend,,, except maybe Bob R. (who is a pro at ‘playing a room’!)

 

Thank you

 

Jeff Kurtz

 Jeff

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