Team Meetings

We have a lot of team meetings. They generally fit yr formula and are PANTS ON TOAST. However at the last meeting I got to take MINUTES which was rather exciting. I made it interesting by taking down absolutely everything as I was bored and also The Woman Who Talks talks ve e e rrr rrr yyy slooooooooooo oooo ooo wwww llllyyyy and makes meetings overrun AND ME LATE FOR LUNCH! As if I care!!! I AM STILL A DAMN TEMP albiet one who is being begged not to leave. She is evil and I am interesting in setting her up for a fall. Fatnick, yr needed.

Design meetings: can be good fun, especially at brainstorming stages, but often turn into four stubborn developers refusing to accept each other's opinions as anything other than the ravings of VB programming lunatics who wouldn't know what a well structured program was if it came up and twatted them all in the mouth.

All other meetings ever: satan's death weasel horror-style boredom.

The funny thing was our management moved the meetings from Monday mornings to Wednesday mornings thinking that then more people would say stuff....

As if!

we have workshops in my creative writing courses - they are fucking viscious. people suck.

One of my best moments -- falling completely asleep at one of those things right next to the team leader.

The closest thing to a team meeting that I participate in is "group critique". We all sit around and look at each others photographs and, well, we critique them. It can get quite uncomfortable at times and it lasts for about three and a half hours. When it's hell, it's pure hell. When it's great, it's excellent.

Team meetings suck ass. They're almost always wankfests of limited- to-no utility, they take up way too much time, and usually necessitate my getting up extra early so as to schlep from NYC to White Plains (since most of the staff in my department at the firm work there) in order to endure the wankfest.

Meetings with clients or court personnel suck ass, too, but not as much because at least I can almost always bill my time for such meetings (which means that clients don't want them to take too long and don't want to flip on my Schadenfreude button).