Specifically something along the lines of: I'd like to listen to the bosses bosses boss ramble about process improvement initiatives but instead I'm listening to my stomach growl because I couldn't go out for lunch due to the thunderstorm so...
Given that meetings are usually highly ineffective and unproductive, snacks are a management pickle. On one hand there's sunk cost, we're losing $1000 of salary by having a CYA meeting. On the other hand, if we spend $1010 and buy everyone donuts, there's a 1 in 100 chance some otherwise hungry guy might pay attention and make the whole thing worth it. This applies to higher level project wide goals, also. The only thing worse than paying $400K in dev salary to a team to do something we know won't work but had to be done for political reasons, is paying $400050 for the same thing we know won't work but now we bought the team donuts every friday.
Specifically something along the lines of: I'd like to listen to the bosses bosses boss ramble about process improvement initiatives but instead I'm listening to my stomach growl because I couldn't go out for lunch due to the thunderstorm so...
Given that meetings are usually highly ineffective and unproductive, snacks are a management pickle. On one hand there's sunk cost, we're losing $1000 of salary by having a CYA meeting. On the other hand, if we spend $1010 and buy everyone donuts, there's a 1 in 100 chance some otherwise hungry guy might pay attention and make the whole thing worth it. This applies to higher level project wide goals, also. The only thing worse than paying $400K in dev salary to a team to do something we know won't work but had to be done for political reasons, is paying $400050 for the same thing we know won't work but now we bought the team donuts every friday.