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I'm not telling a lie when I say that I'm freaking pissed off by a meeting I had to attend today. It was such a big pile of BS. Usually I don't mind, because well, I'm getting paid so if this is how you want to use my time, sure, whatever.
Basically I have to go to these weekly meetings about the work I do. But it's not quite so simple, it involves other researchers as well, it's like a big cluster of researchers, so we meet as a group, because we're doing our individual stuff for this bigger project.
Now, usually they're quite boring. But today it got to a point where I couldn't say anything, I was full of anger because it was such BS that ... why do we do this? I don't get it. If this was... how much do you love to just sit and talk about coffee and scheduling a coffee break that has already been scheduled. "Is that coffee break OK? Should we have it 9AM or 9.30AM?", and this **** is for like something that happens in few months. Who CARES?!? Apparently a lot of people did. And the structure for that day has already been scheduled like two months ago, everyone has accepted it already, so ... it's not about that either.
I mean I go there 5 minutes early. Only two people besides me. We wait for 20 minutes, that's 15 past the agreed time, and few other people join. We fully start 30 minutes late, because well, you can't have people arriving on time. It's such BS, you think if I working for a company and had everyone waiting for 30 minutes and said "oops", that would magically make it OK? The least you can do is apologize for making many people sit for 30 minutes, time they could be eating, doing their work or whatever.
SO anyway, so they start it like 20 past anyway, since we can't wait forever. So as the last people arrive, we start all over again. So they can also enter the debate about the coffee break. WHAT THE **** IS THIS ****!!!!?
My face looks like I'm just not caring at all about the meeting or the people in it. I don't even want to hide it. I'm like "you think I'm loathing you? Good. I want you to know that. This **** is ridiculous."
So the next item on the list, well it wasn't but the next topic anyway was about some damn event taking place next year, like a year away from this day. Why is this interesting? Are we going to reserve some places, are we going to invite people now, are we going to see people who will be responsible for stuff? No? Oh, we're just talking about different vacation spots, and the trees in the other one because the trees in there were nice, but oh the other places has a big rock. Plus it's only like an hour drive away from this one other place (everything is an hour drive away in here). Ooh what about that nice place in Richtenasteinmeinstein that one of us went 4 years ago, they had a fireplace in this house. Wow, how interesting.
And this goes on and on. I'm truly ****ing angry. I'm raging inside. I'm just trying not to say anything really nasty and rude. I'd like to tell everyone that next time you want to waste my time for a good hour and a half for ****ing nothing, let me know in advance, because this **** has always sucked, but now it's sank to levels that can be described as the pure absolute of incompetence.
I was amazed at this ****. At some point I was thinking this must be candid camera thing, I mean they must be joking. This is some kind of an inside joke. At the end we laugh at it, because that would be absolutely hilarious. Kind of like writing Bible and on the last page state that "oh, just kidding!". Like a long time wasting joke.
No decisions was made. No items that requires decisions was brought up. Nothing that remotely resembles an item was seen in this meeting. It was absolutely mind blowing what happened there with all the non-talk. If I had been in any kind of position of power, I would have stood up and said within the first 5 minutes the real time started that we'll start NOW. After 15 minutes of that **** I would have said what is this ****? What are we doing here? If nothing else, let's get the **** out. Now.
I'm not telling a lie when I say that I'm freaking pissed off by a meeting I had to attend today. It was such a big pile of BS. Usually I don't mind, because well, I'm getting paid so if this is how you want to use my time, sure, whatever.
Basically I have to go to these weekly meetings about the work I do. But it's not quite so simple, it involves other researchers as well, it's like a big cluster of researchers, so we meet as a group, because we're doing our individual stuff for this bigger project.
Now, usually they're quite boring. But today it got to a point where I couldn't say anything, I was full of anger because it was such BS that ... why do we do this? I don't get it. If this was... how much do you love to just sit and talk about coffee and scheduling a coffee break that has already been scheduled. "Is that coffee break OK? Should we have it 9AM or 9.30AM?", and this **** is for like something that happens in few months. Who CARES?!? Apparently a lot of people did. And the structure for that day has already been scheduled like two months ago, everyone has accepted it already, so ... it's not about that either.
I mean I go there 5 minutes early. Only two people besides me. We wait for 20 minutes, that's 15 past the agreed time, and few other people join. We fully start 30 minutes late, because well, you can't have people arriving on time. It's such BS, you think if I working for a company and had everyone waiting for 30 minutes and said "oops", that would magically make it OK? The least you can do is apologize for making many people sit for 30 minutes, time they could be eating, doing their work or whatever.
SO anyway, so they start it like 20 past anyway, since we can't wait forever. So as the last people arrive, we start all over again. So they can also enter the debate about the coffee break. WHAT THE **** IS THIS ****!!!!?
My face looks like I'm just not caring at all about the meeting or the people in it. I don't even want to hide it. I'm like "you think I'm loathing you? Good. I want you to know that. This **** is ridiculous."
So the next item on the list, well it wasn't but the next topic anyway was about some damn event taking place next year, like a year away from this day. Why is this interesting? Are we going to reserve some places, are we going to invite people now, are we going to see people who will be responsible for stuff? No? Oh, we're just talking about different vacation spots, and the trees in the other one because the trees in there were nice, but oh the other places has a big rock. Plus it's only like an hour drive away from this one other place (everything is an hour drive away in here). Ooh what about that nice place in Richtenasteinmeinstein that one of us went 4 years ago, they had a fireplace in this house. Wow, how interesting.
And this goes on and on. I'm truly ****ing angry. I'm raging inside. I'm just trying not to say anything really nasty and rude. I'd like to tell everyone that next time you want to waste my time for a good hour and a half for ****ing nothing, let me know in advance, because this **** has always sucked, but now it's sank to levels that can be described as the pure absolute of incompetence.
I was amazed at this ****. At some point I was thinking this must be candid camera thing, I mean they must be joking. This is some kind of an inside joke. At the end we laugh at it, because that would be absolutely hilarious. Kind of like writing Bible and on the last page state that "oh, just kidding!". Like a long time wasting joke.
No decisions was made. No items that requires decisions was brought up. Nothing that remotely resembles an item was seen in this meeting. It was absolutely mind blowing what happened there with all the non-talk. If I had been in any kind of position of power, I would have stood up and said within the first 5 minutes the real time started that we'll start NOW. After 15 minutes of that **** I would have said what is this ****? What are we doing here? If nothing else, let's get the **** out. Now.
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