Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Magpiespower]

Buzzwords are ******ed and I'm guessing that meeting was for some bullshit topic.

The bullshit was flying thick and fast, lol. Funny for a bit. But eventually, I just wanted to bash him with the books he got them out of...

 

[I Dont Care]

It appears that our own Foot Falcon is branching out. Saw a brochure in the lobby of the hotel on the weekend for Foot Falcon Guided Walking Tours of Alice Springs.

“Foot Falcon” is a local Aboriginal English term that means to walk. It’s a play on Ford Falcon

Well I never

 

[raman]

I hate butchers' paper and flip charts

Any work meeting that involves splitting off into groups of three or four and doing shit on butchers paper.

 

[Magpiespower]

Any work meeting that involves splitting off into groups of three or four and doing shit on butchers paper.

BRAINSTORM!!!

Do people still do that shit?

What a f@%king waste of time...

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Many years ago I went to a compulsory OHS seminar where there were a lot of social workers in attendance. We needed to consider the OHS issues surrounding putting a number of pigeon holes on a wall in a corridor.

As with those above there were a few playing bullsh1t bingo so as the group I was in sat around considering this I asked the other members if they thought the social workers were considering the feelings of the wall in this matter.

A few couldn't stop laughing for a while and had to leave the room to compose themselves.

 

[Lagooner]

Any work meeting that involves splitting off into groups of three or four and doing shit on butchers paper.

So much this. Waste of time.

You always get some goose who hogs the marker but then doesn't want to speak, so you get stuck doing the presentation while trying to decipher their jibberish on the fly.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

The word seminar could be a cure for insomnia.. nothing induces yawning quite so well at the mere thought

 

[Doctor Feel]

The word seminar could be a cure for insomnia.. nothing induces yawning quite so well at the mere thought

"Workshop" is the killer for me.

 

[Magpiespower]

A few couldn't stop laughing for a while and had to leave the room to compose themselves.

Aw, hellz yeah!

When you piss yourself laughing over something in a meeting and try to stop laughing, which only makes your laughing fit worse, and, except for one or two people who know what you're laughing at, everyone is looking at you like you've completely lost it so you have to excuse yourself for ages until you're all laughed out only to return to the complete bemusement of colleagues still wondering WTF you were laughing at.

That's the best...

 

[70sDinosaur]

I hate butchers' paper and flip charts

Agreed. I'm more of a texta on overhead transparency projector man myself.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Man, my biggest laughing fit was at managers training at dick smith. To set the scene, I was managing a store at Elizabeth. Anyway, they were talking about handling complaints, and the facilitator said "don't say this, else you are cooked." And I mumbled "cooked like 3/4 of my customer base." And the lady next to me started having a massive laughing fit, and it triggered me into one as well. We both had tears running down our face trying to contain ourselves. I remember being as red as a beetroot, but I somehow got through it.

Shit, it's making me giggle remembering it.

 

[70sDinosaur]

Any work meeting that involves splitting off into groups of three or four and doing shit on butchers paper.

True, and it's even worse when they ask each group to do a SWOT analysis.

 

[finbarr]

Those meetings where you suffer in silence while someone drops buzzwords like a bastard then pulls out the texta and whiteboard and draws a diagram to reinforce they have absolutely NFI what they're talking about, so yeah, thanks for the coffee and danish and good luck with all that coz I'm f@%kin' out!

Those meetings are "where the rubber hits the road", eh.

 

[Dylan8]

I love that. Try to cool down but as soon as you look up at the other person who was laughing you lose it again.

 

[manureid]

I am an active meeting avoider.

 

[raman]

I am an active meeting avoider.

"We've got to do something about this lack of productivity."

"Less of these meetings?"

 

[Magpiespower]

Those meetings are "where the rubber hits the road", eh.

 

[manureid]

"We've got to do something about this lack of productivity."

"Less of these meetings?"

Pretty much. Public service meetings that go for an hour and you walk out thinking we made no progress whatsoever, on anything. I am a constatnt apology.

 

[PepeSilvia]

Black Books is great, but the sound of the marker going across the paper hurts my brain.

 

[finbarr]

Pretty much. Public service meetings that go for an hour and you walk out thinking we made no progress whatsoever, on anything. I am a constatnt apology.

Take a sick day.

 

[finbarr]

These people have got to get it into their heads that nobody gives a shit about their meetings. Some of us actually just work as a means of getting money to be able to enjoy our lives away from work. I like my job, but one of the things I like most about it is that it allows me to turn up, do it, then go home not having to even think about work until I'm back there the next day.

 

[manureid]

These people have got to get it into their heads that nobody gives a shit about their meetings. Some of us actually just work as a means of getting money to be able to enjoy our lives away from work. I like my job, but one of the things I like most about it is that it allows me to turn up, do it, then go home not having to even think about work until I'm back there the next day.

Means to an end. My work.

 

[CrimsonRaven]

I remember staff meetings at certain hotels where the entire front of house and back of house staff were required to attend. We would spend 60 minutes talking about front of house issues which has nothing to do with the kitchen and then have 5 minutes from the kitchen usually asking front of house to this or that better. Biggest waste of time, nothing ever changed.

 

[Magpiespower]

Problem is the jackass who calls the meeting nearly always walks out of it thinking we've made "real progress," when, usually, no, "we've" achieved precisely sweet FA, which I can kinda handle if they've shouted lunch and booze and shit...

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I'm tipping staff meetings at Blockbuster are short n' sharp.. get in before the bell tolls meeting h8er's