Flipwit meeting requests

[moorfield]

It's for some on-the-bench (i.e. not billing) permie to show off something they've spent the last six days...weeks...months researching.

Yup, that's indeed what it was.

Complete waste of time, and nothing more than a permie love-in and ar*e greasing exercise.



Now I'm off out to have a proper contractorr's lunch!

[Mich the Tester]

As a contractor, you should spurn the invitation.

Things like 'brown bag meetings' or worse 'town hall meetings' are for permie slaves working in American (or at least Americanized) cube farms.

WHS At one clientco I proudly held a 100% absenteeism record at their 'meetings in a box'. Somehow there was always a more pressing issue for me to deal with, like 'lunch', or 'pub'.

[Dearnla]

I think the Brown Bag referred to is in order to barf into when you've had enough of sniffing bullsh*t ......

[Mich the Tester]

I think the Brown Bag referred to is in order to barf into when you've had enough of sniffing bullsh*t ......

Better to take one of these.

[Sysman]

Why is the Yanks get their shopping in brown bags anyway?

Surely a missed marketing opportunity there.

[d000hg]

If the techy people are running the sessions, it can be quite interesting to other genuine techies - the kind who do programming for fun (like me).

If anyone else is running it, yawn.

[MonzaMike]

The worst ones are those where some permie has to share info on some inane aspect of their work to the rest of the team as part of their "objectives", which they need to meet to get their bonus.

[bogeyman]

Why is the Yanks get their shopping in brown bags anyway?

Surely a missed marketing opportunity there.

Indeed.

They should be called 'flimsy plastic Tesco carrier bag lunches' in the UK.

[vetran]

Ah lunch and learn another assault on your work life balance.

[suityou01]

I've been invited to a "Brown Bag Lunch" meeting.

What the flip is one of those??

Anyone got any other silly ones to share.

This isnt an investment management house in the Moorgate area by any chance is it?