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"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce) 01/21/2020 at 14:21 • Filed to: None

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I had a meeting, to discuss what we would discuss in the next meeting. With all of the people who would be present in the next meeting. We were dissuaded from beginning the talks about our talking points. Only told to summarize our lists. I am continually impressed by how often people do this and claim it’s for “productivity”.

In lighter news, I made my own variants on some air freshener type  fragrances so my lab and FoST now smell like a rainfall in a tropical rainforest. 

WilliamsSW > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 14:33

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Let me know how the post meeting recap meeting goes. And don’t forget to set up a meeting to agree to a time for the next pre-meeting in advance of the next meeting.

WRXforScience > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 14:36

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Pretty much every meeting I’ve been in could have been an email, at least at my current school our faculty meetings are only quarterly and not monthly like some of the previous schools I’ve taught at. Unfortunately, often important or controversial topics are omitted from the meetings and sent later as email to limit discussion or push-back.

Chariotoflove > WilliamsSW 01/21/2020 at 14:37

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That’s called “the minutes”, and you get to talk about that at the next meeting.

Chariotoflove > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 14:39

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Oh for goodness sake, yes. When I am the chair of c ommittees, I shunt as much business I can to email.  Unless discussion has to happen in real time, group emails are usually a good substitute.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > WilliamsSW 01/21/2020 at 14:39

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Well before the post meeting recap we’re gonna need a conference call with corporate to TOUCH BASE!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 14:43

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I had a meeting to discuss an email I had to write. 

Textured Soy Protein > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 14:44

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I have a bi-weekly meeting with the C-suite where we go over assorted recruiting stuff I’m responsible for. S everal months after I started with this company, they randomly informed me that they wanted me to keep meeting minutes, and that every subsequent meeting needed to begin with a recitation of the previous meeting’s minutes and action items. Then an additional C-suite-ish person asked to be added to the meetings, and to be provided with the minutes from all the previous meetings, which of course I should’ve been keeping in my meeting minutes archive (that did n’t actually exist except for my sent email folder) . Nothing in a meeting here ever really goes away, apparently.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/21/2020 at 14:46

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I had a phone call to discuss a meeting to discuss an email to plan a phone call.

I’m starting a new business rule - everyone is only allowed to invite one person outside of the initial group to be included on the plans. If you weren’t on the initial list, then chances are you weren’t needed or wanted. An d if you need to invite a dozen extra people then you were clearly included by mistake and should be removed.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 14:50

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When you self actualize as Dilbert.

HammerheadFistpunch > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 14:52

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currently in one. This one is a meeting to recap how we did at a conference.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Textured Soy Protein 01/21/2020 at 14:52

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Our carpet products division is switching bottle sizes for some of our products and decided to do this almost 6 months ago. I found out the other day that literally no one had communicated anything to our customers or distributors about this. We were out of the old size and were going live with the new size as we were sending out the communications. All because every meeting ended without anyone issuing action items. Th ey literally had months of meetings and discussions where nothing got done. I about lost my shit at the group when I found out, particularly because I stepped away f ro m that group to focus on car care and turned around to see everyone effectively huffing paint.

WilliamsSW > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 14:56

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Obligatory  

WilliamsSW > Chariotoflove 01/21/2020 at 14:56

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Chariotoflove > WilliamsSW 01/21/2020 at 15:05

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This is all true.

WilliamsSW > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 15:12

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“Turned around to see everyone effectively huffing paint”

Lol but you’re giving them too much credit.  Huffing paint would require some initiative.

WilliamsSW > Chariotoflove 01/21/2020 at 15:13

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I work in an environment now where almost no one respects meeting start or end times (unless it suits them) and it is driving me crazy.  Along with approximately everything else around here. 

Textured Soy Protein > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 15:17

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Minutes & action items are good and fine but I was a bit taken aback with how they were presented to me. I’m the one person for recruiting so I took rough notes from these meetings that were good enough for me to make a to-do list, and acted on them.

But after several months of working here, one of them randomly asked me for the formal minutes from the last meeting, as if I should’ve known all along that’s how they wanted the meetings to be conducted. That’s how a lot of requests from upper management happen around here: “where is the thing I’ve never previously asked you for, but you should’ve known that I wanted?”

ttyymmnn > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 15:21

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I had a meeting, to discuss what we would discuss in the next meeting.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 15:47

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Note to self, make a mug that says “I survived another GMG ownership change”

Once or twice a year work makes me travel about twenty  miles to another location so they can read me a printout of a powerpoint that could have just been emailed to us. There's a ferry ride involved so it basically wastes an entire day.

atfsgeoff > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 17:50

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Yo dawg, I heard u liek meetings

ranwhenparked > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/21/2020 at 19:12

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AKA 89% of all meetings and conference calls  held since the invention of email.