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Post by kds on Apr 19, 2024 13:45:40 GMT
Some unholy monster scheduled a meeting for 1:30pm today. And, to top it off, it's one of those rare meetings in the Post COVID Era where we're actually meeting in person. Yesterday I had a late afternoon meeting (3:00-4:30) and I was raging at that ... despite it being only Thursday. If it had been for today, I think I might've resigned my position! Thankfully today I'm mostly just following up on tasks that grew out of yesterday's late meeting--not a single meeting on the calendar. So hopefully I can ease into the weekend with a day of solitary work. I usually mentally quit my job about once a week, or once every two weeks. So far, this calendar year, it's been probably once daily. Just little things that just pile up. But, I feel like any job will have it's own share of bull schmidt. And, I do have flexibility here.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 19, 2024 13:56:29 GMT
Yesterday I had a late afternoon meeting (3:00-4:30) and I was raging at that ... despite it being only Thursday. If it had been for today, I think I might've resigned my position! Thankfully today I'm mostly just following up on tasks that grew out of yesterday's late meeting--not a single meeting on the calendar. So hopefully I can ease into the weekend with a day of solitary work. I usually mentally quit my job about once a week, or once every two weeks. So far, this calendar year, it's been probably once daily. Just little things that just pile up. But, I feel like any job will have it's own share of bull schmidt. And, I do have flexibility here. That's basically why I am still at my job. There is a lot to complain about, but there is plenty to like (including being able to be remote almost everyday but with flexibility to go to the office whenever I want; flexibility regarding both general hours or work and specifically within each day; decent pay). The negatives are negative, but the positives are positive. (How's that for a totally worthless and obvious sentence?) I've met too many people who have quit their jobs, positive that things could not be worse, only to see them regret the moves.
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Post by kds on Apr 19, 2024 14:16:19 GMT
I usually mentally quit my job about once a week, or once every two weeks. So far, this calendar year, it's been probably once daily. Just little things that just pile up. But, I feel like any job will have it's own share of bull schmidt. And, I do have flexibility here. That's basically why I am still at my job. There is a lot to complain about, but there is plenty to like (including being able to be remote almost everyday but with flexibility to go to the office whenever I want; flexibility regarding both general hours or work and specifically within each day; decent pay). The negatives are negative, but the positives are positive. (How's that for a totally worthless and obvious sentence?) I've met too many people who have quit their jobs, positive that things could not be worse, only to see them regret the moves. Yeah, at the end of the day, work's work. I'm pretty comfortable here, and have a lot of leave. Maybe I should use it more often. It might improve my outlook.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 26, 2024 19:38:12 GMT
Everybody loves Friday afternoon meetings, right?
I had one booked from 1-2 today. I wasn't clear on the purpose of it, but there were three directors, four pretty high ranking (but below directors) client services personnel, and two lower support personnel. With nine people and several being up there on the org chart, I figured it would be something of at least relatively high importance. So I checked earlier this week with the organizer (a director, as am I) whether there was an agenda, anything to prep for ahead of time, even a specific question or issue we were tackling. He gave a pretty vague answer.
Turned out it was almost literally nothing. One vague question he had for one of the lowest ranking people on the call that could easily have been handled by email, then 10 minutes of hemming and hawing like "well, I think that's probably about all I had ... does anyone else have anything?" The answer, of course, being no: it was his stupid meeting, nobody else wanted to be there. (By the way, it didn't even really involve the third director or the four mid-management people. At all.) And then we hung up.
Thankfully it was something we could do remotely, because if I'd gone to the office to participate in this, I might have blown up the office building on my way out. (Dear NSA/FBI/etc, this was a joke. I would not have blown up anything. Calm down.)
This guy loves meetings, and especially in-person meetings. I could not relate to him less.
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