Meetings

[jim]

Wow, I should stop complaining now. If my job required that I would have to starve because I know I couldn't do that.

[JackofDiamonds]

My weekly schedule has become so full of meetings that I've stopped even looking for gaps between meetings, and I consider it a win when I only have one meeting scheduled at a given time.

The 30 minute and hour gaps between meetings are almost worse than the meetings themselves. As soon as I make it back to my office, the vultures begin hovering one by one. "Hey do you have a few minutes?" "Oh good, you're back. What do you think about..." "Hey I just got a call from..."

My daily schedule looks something like this:

6:00-6:30 - Watch some TV while reviewing emails received overnight
6:30-7:00 - Get ready and head to the office
7:00-7:10 - Best part of the day--grab coffee
7:10-8:00 - Try to get something done before everyone arrives
8:00-11:30 - Meetings, meetings, meetings, and when not in a meeting get badgered non-stop
11:30-12:00 - Try to get something done after everyone else has headed to lunch
12:00-12:30 - Try to eat lunch, on days when I don't have lunch meetings planned (which happens about every other day)
12:30-5:00 - Meetings, meetings, meetings....
5:00-5:15 - Solve everyone's last-minute problems for the day
5:15 - Manager drops by, "Executive X wants to get up to speed on Issue Y. Can you put some bullets together and send to me?"
5:15-6:00 - Try to catch up on the emails that piled up over the day
6:00-6:30 - Put together those bullets
6:30 - "Oh, you're still here? Do you have a few minutes? I was thinking about...."
6:55 - Rush out of the building before they lock the door in my lobby at 7:00, forcing me to walk about 17 miles through the complex to exit out of the main lobby

I wish I were joking. My days suck unless I'm travelling, when I can actually look forward to having some peace and quiet on the plane and in hotel rooms to get some actual work done.

Preach! I'm in a hotel M-Th and I get most of my work done from 7-10pm in either my room or the lobby.

[Popeye_Card]

Wow, I should stop complaining now. If my job required that I would have to starve because I know I couldn't do that.

I shouldn't complain. I love what I do, when I get the time to do it. But the daily grind just wears on me, and it frustrates me when I have this huge backlog of things I haven't been able to get to, but I'm too busy attending some BS meeting about the 2017 budget, because someone else has it in their goals that we need to improve upon preparing our budget 2 years in advance.

[Jocephus]

shouldn't use first names. now i will forever wonder is it, e-an, or een.

[jim]

I would melt if I worked more than 8 hours in a day, at least doing what I do.

[JackofDiamonds]

Wow, I should stop complaining now. If my job required that I would have to starve because I know I couldn't do that.

I shouldn't complain. I love what I do, when I get the time to do it. But the daily grind just wears on me, and it frustrates me when I have this huge backlog of things I haven't been able to get to, but I'm too busy attending some BS meeting about the 2017 budget, because someone else has it in their goals that we need to improve upon preparing our budget 2 years in advance.

[Popeye], I forget, do you work directly for Marathon in Findlay now? My cousin's interning there and they've extended him or something because he's doing a good job (environmental engineer intern from UC). [Another Person]

FTFY.

[jim]

Actually that's not true about the 8 hours and melting, because starting Mar 1 I started working 9 hour days and it's not easy. getting used to it. The reason I'm doing it is because now I get every other Friday off - so I work 9-9-9-9-8 and then 9-9-9-9-0. And it's really 9.0 and 8.0 - when Mr. Slate blows that whistle it's yabba dadda do and I'm out of here.

[haltz]

I've been working 6-7 hours a day, four days a week lately. Meetings are practically non-existent.

One of these days I might need to find something a little more career-oriented.

[Popeye_Card]

Actually that's not true about the 8 hours and melting, because starting Mar 1 I started working 9 hour days and it's not easy. getting used to it. The reason I'm doing it is because now I get every other Friday off - so I work 9-9-9-9-8 and then 9-9-9-9-0. And it's really 9.0 and 8.0 - when Mr. Slate blows that whistle it's yabba dadda do and I'm out of here.

We've been told that we have flex time. We are free to get here any time before 8am, and leave any time after 5pm. It is great.

[JackofDiamonds]

Actually that's not true about the 8 hours and melting, because starting Mar 1 I started working 9 hour days and it's not easy. getting used to it. The reason I'm doing it is because now I get every other Friday off - so I work 9-9-9-9-8 and then 9-9-9-9-0. And it's really 9.0 and 8.0 - when Mr. Slate blows that whistle it's yabba dadda do and I'm out of here.

We've been told that we have flex time. We are free to get here any time before 8am, and leave any time after 5pm. It is great.

I was told I have 104 days off every year, why do I need to worry about free time during the week?