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Lunchtime Work Meetings

markysimmo

markysimmo

Johnny nice-tits
My GHod all I ever seem to get with my job these days is IT and project people putting in meetings during my lunchtime

Are these people fudging cretins are something and they never offer lunch either

I just point blank refused invites for a 1pm - 2pm meeting next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
 
Ha ha, you should go to one, you’ll be surprised, I’ve been in IT for 20 years, lunch meeting is code for fudging off to the pub for the rest of the day.
 
I've put myself as busy during lunchtime in the outlook calender for the entire year. That has done the trick for me.
 
markysimmo said:
My GHod all I ever seem to get with my job these days is IT and project people putting in meetings during my lunchtime

Are these people fudging cretins are something and they never offer lunch either

I just point blank refused invites for a 1pm - 2pm meeting next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
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Block it out in your calendar. Though, even more annoyingly, you’ll still get people who ignore it and book the meeting anyway - and then when you decline ask you to find a time that works for everyone. Tw*ts.
 
I would suggest you eat on the go marky, but after reading the poo and guff thread perhaps not.

Can you not just get out some sarnies in a meeting or is that frowned on?

I did not have to have to many meetings in my working life but I always sort of did what I wanted. You walk in some place and act like billy big gonads they will totally respect you for it.

Could do a seinfield and eat a chocolate bar with a knife and fork just to fcuk with their heads.
 
My old boss said that it was normal to have a scotch or a spliff in a meeting in the sixties. I was in a meeting from 9:30 til 14:30 today, and all I got was a (3) chocolate hobnob.
 
galeforce said:
Ha ha, you should go to one, you’ll be surprised, I’ve been in IT for 20 years, lunch meeting is code for fudging off to the pub for the rest of the day.
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Very true @galeforce,

I used to work in the Middle East/Africa/Asia region for my company ( selling Banking Solutions ).
Most times, having sold your solution to the country management, I had to go to Bank's HQ to get the final approval.

In the case of British Banks, it invariably meant meeting with their IT/operations guys. These guys ALWAYS gave us an appointment at around 11 am.
The meetings were usually over in an hour or two at the most. It was then off to a posh restaurant for lunch and drinks. These lasted for the whole afternoon and sometimes even into the evening.
There were enough great places in the City area for this.
Needless to say that we as the suppliers ended up picking the tab !!!
 
Meetings made me change my career. I made the decision when I looked at my calendar one Monday and I had 40 meetings scheduled for the week. fudging ridiculous.
 
Rorschach said:
Meetings made me change my career. I made the decision when I looked at my calendar one Monday and I had 40 meetings scheduled for the week. fudging ridiculous.
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I've recently been promoted and I'm struggling a bit with the sheer amount of meetings I get asked to attend
I know my workload and responsibility will be bigger but I sometimes think how do I do my job as well !!
 
Lunchtime meetings were usually called by contract IT staff, and got short shrift from me, as they were usually fishing for tech info they were supposed to have on arrival.

My tech meetings at release delivery time were entitled Personnel Information Manipulation Management Seminar or suchlike. Anything that spelt out PIMMS, which was the agenda, along with cheese & biccies. I sold it to the management on the grounds that we were available to respond to queries, whereas others would be in the pubs.
 
markysimmo said:
I've recently been promoted and I'm struggling a bit with the sheer amount of meetings I get asked to attend
I know my workload and responsibility will be bigger but I sometimes think how do I do my job as well !!
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Delegate all your work.

Edit: and congrats
 
markysimmo said:
I am trying to do this but the people I'm delegating stuff to are not quite up to scratch currently, they will be though
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brick staff are never the problem - you can just sack them.

It's mediocre staff that fudge everything up. They're not good enough to delegate to, they're not brick enough to sack. I've had to wait 15 years for someone in my place to retire after being shifted sideways again and again.
 
scaramanga said:
brick staff are never the problem - you can just sack them.

It's mediocre staff that fudge everything up. They're not good enough to delegate to, they're not brick enough to sack. I've had to wait 15 years for someone in my place to retire after being shifted sideways again and again.
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I know what you mean on that second point, If I could I would get rid of at least 3 or 4 clownies that work in our department, they offer nothing to the team
 
markysimmo said:
I've recently been promoted and I'm struggling a bit with the sheer amount of meetings I get asked to attend
I know my workload and responsibility will be bigger but I sometimes think how do I do my job as well !!
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Try and find a discrete laptop. As most meetings are filled with fluff, make out your taking notes on your laptop, but actually get your work done [emoji41]


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