Comments on: Briefcase blues

By: Adam_Y

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:00:08 +0000

Good grief, that sounds like some awful Kafka-esque nightmare. Though you do have to give iy up for holding a business meeting in a bar. Adam_Ys last post..Too soon?

By: C

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:32:57 +0000

We used to have monthly meetings.

Once a month, we’d all put on suits and ties, stand around in a smoky bar for half an hour waiting for them to get started, listen as the minutes of the previous meeting were read out, vote that they were a true and accurate record of that meeting, stand around until they were convinced there was no other business and then end the meeting.

This means all we really did was confirm that we’d achieved nothing the previous month except to confirm that we’d achieved nothing the previous month except to confirm that we’d achieved nothing the previous month except to confirm that we’d achieved nothing the previous month except to confirm that we’d achieved nothing the previous month except to confirm that we’d achieved nothing the previous month … for most of two years, and they’re probably still at it now.

I tried to suggest that we not have another, but got hissed down because people felt I was wasting their time by prolonging the meeting.

By: Davey

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:49:07 +0000

They’re easy to love, if you can sleep with your eyes open.

By: Sam

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:59:24 +0000

My mum works in a company with two production meetings a day! They sit in a circle, and discuss all the errors that have gone wrong since the last production meeting (which was, at most, 18 hours ago), blame one another for the errors, file a report, and then never talk about it again, EXCEPT for the quarterly meeting where they discuss all of the reports that were never solved, and it starts all over again.

It’s a beautiful circle.

By: Seraphine

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:59:36 +0000

Oh yes, I forgot the anonymously left post-it notes.
I anonomously re-post them to the water cooler for everyone to see.

By: golfwidow

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:15:45 +0000

Every so often we get a beautiful, sunny, perfect day, and gas is just barely low enough for us to go drive a little without bankrupting ourselves. We head to the beach, where I pray that my former employers are stuck in meetings all day, and that it will start to rain just as they leave the office, and I feel vaguely evil, but in a good way.

By: Adam

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:40:30 +0000

OK, looks to be far trickier than I thought… really tricky…

It will get sorted, but for now I have added a ‘random comic’ link in the sidebar, at the top, just under the RSS thingy… as a form of distraction.

By: Adam

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:48:32 +0000

feedback is good… I liked that too, and I am working on restoring it…

By: Roo

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:42:42 +0000

Random site feed back: I really liked the names the comics in place of “previous” and “next” for the navigation buttons.

By: Roo

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:41:26 +0000

The coffee and biscuits are essential.

By: Adam

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:57:38 +0000

That’s a pretty satute observation… when technology kills, no one is to blame.

I hate the phrase ‘collateral damage’ in reference to living things… it has a real ‘final solution’ ring to it.

By: Joseph Hewitt

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:26:12 +0000

How can you love meetings when coffee and biscuits aren’t involved? I always thought of coffee and biscuits as the whole point of meetings.

By: Ben

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:46:39 +0000

We have a meeting structure flow chart at work.
There are at least 3 weekly meetings I have to attend, one daily meeting and the occasional random meeting.
I love meetings.
But we don’t have coffee and biscuits at ours, maybe that is something that I need to work towards?

By: tia

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:54:04 +0000

a bunch of the freshmen class failed this year, so next school year every Friday all of us are to get split up into homeroom classes for school pride building games and whatnot.
the day after the administration announced it someone taped angry fliers all over the campus, supposedly a teacher

By: Joseph Hewitt

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:45:20 +0000

As much as I love killer robots, I have to agree that they probably belong in the “Things that will NOT help” column. Right now robot combatants are being developed, and I’m worried that they’re just going to make it even easier for rich countries to launch pointless wars. When the inevitable “collateral damage” happens, you can bet that the fact that the soldiers are robots will help the citizens of the invading country to feel no guilt at all over it. After all, who could have expected that robots would have a tough time distinguishing between enemy soldiers and buses full of orphans? It’s clearly not our fault.

By: Melanthios

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:06:55 +0000

Unless the army of robots operate under Asimov’s Laws of AI, then I think you should maybe move them into the Things That Will Not Help column. We’ve all seen The Matrix.

I am constantly planning for a zombie or Death-Eater attack. The former is training from my first boy-friend, the latter is simply an extension of my life-long phobia of people breaking into my residence at night.

By: Adam

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:38:23 +0000

Ahh, Alien > Zombie > Human… the circle of life.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:08:29 +0000

I can imagine situations where zombies would be helpful. For instance in case of alien invasion, zombies would probably eat them and then zombies, not having ray guns, are slightly easier to deal with.

By: Adam

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:26:56 +0000

“Office gossip is a more effective form of communication” – that and threatening post-it notes on co-workers desks.

By: Seraphine

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:12:27 +0000

Regular office meetings are a complete waste of time.
Managers love them because they are “team building”
and bear the appearance of actually doing something.
Office gossip is a more effective form of communication.