Company Meeting · Jan 12, 06:13 AM by Dave Polaschek
Had an interesting schedule at work yesterday. There was a company meeting scheduled from noon to 1:30, so I had planned on ducking out about 11:30 for a quick lunch. As it turned out, my boss called right at 11:30 and we ended up talking until 11:50. At that point, I just headed to the meeting, which ended up running long, so I didn’t get out to lunch until 2:15. Now maybe it was just the hunger making me cranky, but an all-company meeting like this seems like a tremendous waste of time to me. The big bosses brought on marketing people to tell us how great the products we’re working on are.
Excuse me, but one of the reasons I’m working there is because I know I’m working on a cool product (the other, natch, is the money). I don’t need to spend over two hours being pounded over the head by that, and by the time the meeting was over, I was pretty grumpy about the whole business. Especially since I’ve become so commercial-averse, thanks to my TiVo, that obvious marketing like this tends to turn me off whatever product is being pushed in my face. Luckily a double-cheeseburger cured my bad mood, so I managed to finish off the last hour and change of work without any “issues”, but I think I’m going to start skipping big meetings like this in the future.
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