Today's meeting agenda was like a ransom note but lacking a weapon. The list of demands was long, but the list of assurances was short.
I know I'll never forget this moment. I tell myself that I'm keeping that e-mail forever because it's going in my book. The book I'll write about the Hotel (and some of my crazy coworkers) that will be called Is this a bad business case or reality? You decide (working title). If that title isn't snappy enough, we'll get another.
Some of the agenda items were crazy:
1. First of all, when the boss asks each attendee for a meeting agenda item, it does not mean 10 from one person. (not kidding). He/she is running the meeting, not you.
2. The need to define our "communication terms". Last time I checked, you had a company-provided cell phone, a desk phone, a laptop and a desktop PC. If you can't communicate with that, I don't know what to tell you.
3. Asking the boss for prizes. Don't you need an extra trinket for nurses' week? Maybe I'm just weird because I don't.
My assorted paperwork continues. Paperwork for the siblings, paperwork for this agency and my all encompassing travel paperwork that will probably get rejected on the first round.
I feel like a hamster in a wheel...stay tuned.
2 comments:
Used to work at a place that had such boundary-less and insensitive management that I decided that the senior leadership team was actually the love child(ren) of the Monty Python cast and the characters from Dilbert.
Death by meeting....along with death by endless cell phone sounds....the modern equivalent of being pecked to death by birds!
LOL! I agree. The coworkers were the problem in this meeting.
I really got tired of how they kept up the "we're victims" attitude.
Drives me nuts, but not my circus, and not my monkeys.
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