Office Meetings
I’m not a fan of meetings of any kind.
Whoever invented those things…I hope they’re having a boat load of meetings in the after life. Hopefully there is an after life for inventors of crappy things – and meetings. 
At previous companies I worked for meetings were a very rare occurance, but at my current place of employment a meeting can get called at any time for whatever reason.
Case in point…
On Monday I was busy completing a task for a colleague. I got up to take the completed document to her and found a few other people standing in the common area close to her desk.
Next thing, when they see me approaching, I hear “…and don’t forget Abby…”.
With no idea what the conversation was about I looked suspiciously from one to other – wondering what new task awaited me.
After a while I figured they were discussing an embroidery/patchwork project we were planning. I knew about that project and even volunteered my basic needlework skills a few weeks earlier.
So I walked back to my office.
Two minutes later someone walked up to my desk asking “Why did you just walk out of the meeting?”. “It isn’t finished yet”
“What?” I laughed, “That was a meeting?”
Another two minutes later another colleague walked in and asked why I wasn’t in the meeting.
“What meeting?”
Because it was NOT a meeting. It was a group of colleagues standing around discussing an embroidery project!
Next thing I know they disperse and gather again at the same spot with their diaries.
“See,” colleague number said, “the meeting is not over. We haven’t yet decided on a date for the project.”
After a few minutes arranging and rearranging of diaries, a date was decided upon.
**Sigh**
Sometimes I think I’ve entered the Twilight Zone.
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2 Responses to “Office Meetings”
By Claudine on Aug 6, 2010 | Reply
Okay….so an informal natter around the coffeepot counts as one these days?
A company I worked for in Atlantis in the 90s also liked doing all sorts of impromptu “meetings”. Their choice of gathering point was the pub. On a Friday afternoon.
By Abigail Abrahams on Aug 6, 2010 | Reply
if only it was as you described LOL, Claudine. We take our meetings very serious around here.
A colleague actually told me this morning that we must somehow stop these impromptu meetings. But she’s still new here. She has much to learn LOL.