Bearing in mind
That I have no idea if my manager will turn up for our 11 o'clock meeting, I would say I have a special variety of 'fuck with your head' colleague. These meetings are every other week, Thursday, 11 am - and the last, ooh, eight, have been forgotten, over ridden by other meetings, ignored..

This isn't a massive problem (they are kind of pointless as my manager has no idea what I do or how to support or guide, y'know, like a manager ought) but it pisses me off no end that someone pisses about with my time. I have asked three times if we could just let them go, but no - they have to stay in the diary and get ignored.

And it's not just me, she does it to everyone she 'manages' - in the last five months, one third of the staff have left this office, as there is just no support.

I know that a number of people here work in Universities and they are all clearly lovely and brilliant and talented - but to anyone in industry who interviews someone coming from a University with 'people management' on their CV, please note that while this may be true, experience does not mean ability...
( ancrenne doesn't eat anything that can play video games, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 10:57, closed)

Meetings
Should only be held when there is an urgent need for them, and when all other means of resolving any problems have failed.

K2k6's law of meetings: The usefulness of a meeting is inversely proportional to the number of attendees.

Can you tell I'm not a fan of meetings?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 11:00, closed)

working life
"the aim of working hard is to be promoted so your entire day is spent in meetings, thus being so important you have to do no real work yourself"

that was my old boss. At 25, by boss was younger than me (22), and now earns 8 times what i earn.

I think we have the wrong idea for career progression, but not for getting the actual work done.

Its bloody perverse
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Thu 24 Jan 2008, 11:17, closed)