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kristin31
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 Posted: 03/13/03 - 18:03 Post subject: I really need another job.
I do.I just got done sitting through 3.5 hours worth of meetings. I was also told I should be more diplomatic in cutting people off when they wander off topic. I gess "What does THAT have to with the subject" and "And WHO called this meeting" are not corporate America friendly enough.
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Cappy
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Posted: 03/13/03 - 18:31 Post subject: Re: I really need another job.
I don't miss that part of corporate America, meetings about meetings.
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TriBob
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Posted: 03/13/03 - 21:03 Post subject:
I'm with you.
Last night we had a senior VP run around for several hours. By the time he got to me, I told him the info was in a spreadsheet I sent out last week. He then asked me if I could sum up some columns in Excel.  Maybe he should be in the snickers commercial where the boy yells for help because he is to lazy to get the remote.
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elkid
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Posted: 03/13/03 - 21:29 Post subject: Re: I really need another job.
| kristin31 wrote: | | I do.I just got done sitting through 3.5 hours worth of meetings. I was also told I should be more diplomatic in cutting people off when they wander off topic. I gess "What does THAT have to with the subject" and "And WHO called this meeting" are not corporate America friendly enough. |
Yes, but were you in the small conference room marked "Small Conference Room" or the large conference room marked "Large Conference Room"?
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copteacher
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Posted: 03/13/03 - 21:58 Post subject:
no meetings for us. Thank goodness police work is not done that way. Crime would be rampid in America.
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blue
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Posted: 03/14/03 - 00:25 Post subject:
our new manager grew herself a set of gonads.
she's no longer "meeting people" and staying in the corner... she's in some faces, and there is TENSION of the pre-menstrual type...
i dunno if it's that time of month right now, but being the only daytime guy i'm getting stressed out and i haven't had a legit bad day.
i'm just coming home angry...
this lady is starting to get to me *must make coup for power*...
-blue
if only i lived for the job hunt
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Morpheus99
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Posted: 03/14/03 - 10:29 Post subject: Re: I really need another job.
| kristin31 wrote: | | I do.I just got done sitting through 3.5 hours worth of meetings. I was also told I should be more diplomatic in cutting people off when they wander off topic. I gess "What does THAT have to with the subject" and "And WHO called this meeting" are not corporate America friendly enough. |
I know the feeling Kristin (not the job part) but cutting people off who are off topic.
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 03/14/03 - 10:33 Post subject:
Well, I just got a memo from my boss. Sorry to those of you who dislike meetings...
| My boss wrote: | | I will be holding an informal staff meeting at 4:15pm on Monday, March 17th at Hooligan's. Each participating employee will receive a frosty compliments of your humble Irish-American leader. That's right - don't let my last name fool you. My mom is 100% and my dad is 1/4 which takes me well over the 50% Irish heritage mark. If you talk amongst yourselves and would like to visit an alternative establishment, let me know - it must have links to the mother country though. |
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Cappy
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Posted: 03/14/03 - 10:35 Post subject:
| runswithscissors wrote: | Well, I just got a memo from my boss. Sorry to those of you who dislike meetings...
| My boss wrote: | | I will be holding an informal staff meeting at 4:15pm on Monday, March 17th at Hooligan's. Each participating employee will receive a frosty compliments of your humble Irish-American leader. That's right - don't let my last name fool you. My mom is 100% and my dad is 1/4 which takes me well over the 50% Irish heritage mark. If you talk amongst yourselves and would like to visit an alternative establishment, let me know - it must have links to the mother country though. |
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about time they had your Christmas party
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 03/14/03 - 10:36 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | runswithscissors wrote: | Well, I just got a memo from my boss. Sorry to those of you who dislike meetings...
| My boss wrote: | | I will be holding an informal staff meeting at 4:15pm on Monday, March 17th at Hooligan's. Each participating employee will receive a frosty compliments of your humble Irish-American leader. That's right - don't let my last name fool you. My mom is 100% and my dad is 1/4 which takes me well over the 50% Irish heritage mark. If you talk amongst yourselves and would like to visit an alternative establishment, let me know - it must have links to the mother country though. |
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about time they had your Christmas party |
Nope. Still waiting on that one.
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Posted: 03/14/03 - 10:43 Post subject:
| runswithscissors wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | runswithscissors wrote: | Well, I just got a memo from my boss. Sorry to those of you who dislike meetings...
| My boss wrote: | | I will be holding an informal staff meeting at 4:15pm on Monday, March 17th at Hooligan's. Each participating employee will receive a frosty compliments of your humble Irish-American leader. That's right - don't let my last name fool you. My mom is 100% and my dad is 1/4 which takes me well over the 50% Irish heritage mark. If you talk amongst yourselves and would like to visit an alternative establishment, let me know - it must have links to the mother country though. |
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about time they had your Christmas party |
Nope. Still waiting on that one. |
So "frosty compliments" are a good thing?
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 03/14/03 - 10:54 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | runswithscissors wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | runswithscissors wrote: | Well, I just got a memo from my boss. Sorry to those of you who dislike meetings...
| My boss wrote: | | I will be holding an informal staff meeting at 4:15pm on Monday, March 17th at Hooligan's. Each participating employee will receive a frosty compliments of your humble Irish-American leader. That's right - don't let my last name fool you. My mom is 100% and my dad is 1/4 which takes me well over the 50% Irish heritage mark. If you talk amongst yourselves and would like to visit an alternative establishment, let me know - it must have links to the mother country though. |
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about time they had your Christmas party |
Nope. Still waiting on that one. |
So "frosty compliments" are a good thing? |
When they are of the barley pop variety, yes.
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Posted: 03/14/03 - 12:05 Post subject: Re: I really need another job.
| kristin31 wrote: | | I do.I just got done sitting through 3.5 hours worth of meetings. I was also told I should be more diplomatic in cutting people off when they wander off topic. I gess "What does THAT have to with the subject" and "And WHO called this meeting" are not corporate America friendly enough. |
just my humble stay at home opinion Kristin, but i firmly believe that people who wander off topic need to be CUT OFF AT THE KNEES. ya done good girl. i mean, life is too short to be diplomatic and curteous in 3.5 hour meetings. sheeeesh. 
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