[vent]Hate meetings[/vent]

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Just releasing pressure.

I have to kind of ‘give’ a meeting in half an hour. It’s one of those meetings which are pointless but have to happen because Upper-Management want them to happen.

Not looking for advice or anything… Just venting.

ARRRRRRHH!!!

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Hate annoyingly spaced thread titles.
RARGGG!

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[QUOTE=bbs2k]
Hate annoyingly spaced thread titles.
RARGGG!
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Explain what is meant by annoyingly spaced thread titles.

(Darn… foiled by messager board deleting repeated spaces.)

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I find meetings to be quite useful and productive, as long as the people in the meeting are motivated and all try to get useful discussion done. I suspect what you hate is your co-workers, not meetings per se.

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By your title, I thought that you would be complaining about going to a Two-Minutes Hate meeting. Or you work was organizing a Klan rally or something. It’s refreshing to know the truth.

So does upper management in the UK use words like “utilise” and “paradigm shift” all the time in their meetings?

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[QUOTE=scr4]
I find meetings to be quite useful and productive, as long as the people in the meeting are motivated and all try to get useful discussion done. I suspect what you hate is your co-workers, not meetings per se.
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Well, in this case I hate that the meeting is about tightening up something that’s already diamond-from-bum tight.

Think of Dibert and you have a good starting point for imagining where I might work.

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[QUOTE=Lobsang]
Explain what is meant by annoyingly spaced thread titles.

(Darn… foiled by messager board deleting repeated spaces.)
[/QUOTE]

Hah, I see on edit you tried to be silly. Must be frustrating.
YARRR?!

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[QUOTE=thelurkinghorror]
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So does upper management in the UK use words like “utilise” and “paradigm shift” all the time in their meetings?
[/QUOTE]

YES!! Company-speak. All of UK companies now seem to use it. I hate it.

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Off to MPSIMS, where there will be coffee. And bagels.

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[QUOTE=fluiddruid]
Off to MPSIMS, where there will be coffee. And bagels.
[/QUOTE]

What, no donuts?!

GARRRRRGAAGLYYY

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Found on the Internet in various places:

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[QUOTE=Lobsang]
YES!! Company-speak. All of UK companies now seem to use it. I hate it.
[/QUOTE]

Grab the bull by the horns. Take charge of this meeting. Remember, you’re in charge of your future!

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I feel your pain, man.

My entire day on Friday consisted of one pointless for-the-benefit-of-mgmt meeting after another. Because it’s not like I had any real work to do or anything. :rolleyes:

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[QUOTE=Lobsang]
YES!! Company-speak. All of UK companies now seem to use it. I hate it.
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Two words can save your sanity.

Buzzword Bingo