Omg this meeting is so long.

[Zeze]

75 mins...

but then I'm grateful I have a white collar job. I'd rather be in a comfortable chair in a horrible shape than doing physical labor.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

i was just about to post about being thankful you have a job but then I refreshed this post to see you edited your post

 

[Braznor]

I will take that meeting right now....

 

[PottedMeat]

75 mins...

but then I'm grateful I have a white collar job. I'd rather be in a comfortable chair in a horrible shape than doing physical labor.

have a text chat with someone else at the meeting

make sure to talk about the other people there

 

[highland145]

75 mins...

but then I'm grateful I have a white collar job. I'd rather be in a comfortable chair in a horrible shape than doing physical labor.

And making minimum wage.

 

[IronWing]

I will take that meeting right now....

Sorry I'm late for my ass-kicking, my meeting ran a bit long.

 

[dasherHampton]

I feel you, man.

I have meetings I dread like sliding down a rack of razor blades into a pool of alcohol.

 

[IronWing]

Zeze, look around the room and add up the salaries. Ask if anyone has anything to add that is worth $X/hour to listen to.

Even as a peon, I got a long, boring, very expensive ($9000+ per hour back in the 90s) meeting shut down right fast with that approach. My boss couldn't decide whether to chew my ass or give me a raise.

 

[clamum]

Pretty much the only meeting I have is a bi-weekly one with my other fellow developers. I'm kind of a pleb so I don't have many meetings, and besides the bi-weekly one haven't had one in months. There's a couple managers that all they do is sit on the phone all day, in meetings I guess. What a job... LMAO. And yet they can't hire a single dev when we've lost two recently. SMH

 

[BD231]

Your office clearly needs kitty cats, then at least there's something to do during the wait.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Your office clearly needs kitty cats, then at least there's something to do during the wait.

Stroking a fluffy belly is a great way to make any meeting more bearable.

 

[BD231]

Of course .... As you can see, very easily trained also.

 

[Midwayman]

Stroking a fluffy belly is a great way to make any meeting more bearable.

They always look at me weird when I pull up my shirt to do it though.

 

[sdifox]

I will take that meeting right now....

You have a different meeting to go to.

 

[FeuerFrei]

They always look at me weird when I pull up my shirt to do it though.

Just act natural. And keep the nudity to a minimum.

 

[allisolm]

Sooooo long and boring.

 

[snoopy7548]

Sometimes I like long meetings, especially if I can just sit and listen. You can only pretend to do work at your desk for so long.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I don't miss IT meetings when I used to work at the hospital. It was more of a bash party than a meeting. IT manager would spend 2 hours telling everyone what they did wrong in the past week.

Meanwhile I was thinking of all the productive things I could be doing instead.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Sometimes I like long meetings, especially if I can just sit and listen. You can only pretend to do work at your desk for so long.

I feel like this is true for the 9-5 world

But I don't know it yet

 

[snoopy7548]

I feel like this is true for the 9-5 world

But I don't know it yet

For some people it is. I was mostly joking, except for the part about enjoying meetings. Sometimes it really is nice to get out of your office for a change even if it is for a meeting.

 

[Majes]

We have most of our meetings on Mondays here. They generally last about 45 minutes and are pretty useless. I used to take off Friday's a few times a year for a nice weekend. Lately I've been taking off Mondays instead just to miss the meeting...

Pretty sad.

 

[IronWing]

Is it over yet?

 

[Zeze]

Sometimes I like long meetings, especially if I can just sit and listen. You can only pretend to do work at your desk for so long.

Sometimes meetings are a nice way to give your brain a break.

Unless it's a meeting that You're hosting and it's technical in nature. My position demands lots of meetings to be hosted on my end.

 

[snoopy7548]

I have a funny meeting story, but unfortunately I wasn't in this particular meeting.

Like every company, a few people are notorious for dragging meetings on longer than they should go on for. So during some, you would expect some people to be yawning, especially this one which I think was in the afternoon. Well, this one woman yawned so wide she dislocated her jaw and had to go to the hospital. Great way to get out of a meeting early, I guess!