Reply to: Permies can be beyond belief…..

[EddieNambulous]

Late meetings focus the mind. Everybody else wants to go home so they dont interrupt with stupid ideas and discussions. Meetings rarely over run when you start them at 5.

I found this too back in my permie days. Quite amazing how a late meeting manages to drag on until exactly "home-time" and then suddenly everything gets concluded in a few minutes.

Just coincidence, of course

[EternalOptimist]

The radio and the sock thing, just the same, it's the only way.

oh that.

what about the shouty bit down the ear hole, in an intimidating and non-inclusive manner? thats the best bit

[pzz76077]

How about you ask the no show guy to arrange the next meeting.
Then you can all decide if you want to turn up or not.

PZZ

[Peoplesoft bloke]

did what ?

The radio and the sock thing, just the same, it's the only way.

[BrilloPad]

Absolutely.

Wilmslow overlooks the fact that meeetings tend to overrun (especially with him running them I imagine), and by 1pm the pies and chips tend to underrun, and they often stop serving at 1:30pm.

Also, getting to the canteen at 12pm sharp means shorter queues and more tables.

everyone thinks he is a t0sser.

[OwlHoot]

Whether he's a contractor or a permie doesn't matter.

It's just not the done thing to schedule a meeting during the luncheon period.

If I was the boss and any of my staff pulled that sort of stunt, I'd have words.

Absolutely.

Wilmslow overlooks the fact that meeetings tend to overrun (especially with him running them I imagine), and by 1pm the pies and chips tend to underrun, and they often stop serving at 1:30pm.

Also, getting to the canteen at 12pm sharp means shorter queues and more tables.

[The Lone Gunman]

After 16:00 is out. I like to get in early, and get the job done.

Generally them that likes to organise meetings after 16:00 are them that can't get up in the morning.

I like meetings at 08:00 or 09:00, as the attendees are doers, not talkers.

I like late meetings. I start early and finish late to ramp up the hours and get the job done to take time off.
Late meetings focus the mind. Everybody else wants to go home so they dont interrupt with stupid ideas and discussions. Meetings rarely over run when you start them at 5.

[EternalOptimist]

I did that at my last gig too. and last week.

did what ?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Possibly a bit over the top, but this is what I did at my last gig when faced with a similar problem.
First off I marked a radio with my name then hid it in his drawer, reported it missing, then made an anonymous call to security. He got busted for theft.
That tulipted him up for starters. Then I put two snooker balls in a sock and got behind him in the loo and smashed him on the side of the head.
As he lay bleeding and writhing on the bog-floor, I screamed in his lug hole, 'who's the fkng permie daddy then'


that learned him

I did that at my last gig too. and last week.

[threaded]

After 16:00 is out. I like to get in early, and get the job done.

Generally them that likes to organise meetings after 16:00 are them that can't get up in the morning.

I like meetings at 08:00 or 09:00, as the attendees are doers, not talkers.

[BoredBloke]

Also best to avoid Mondays and Fridays as many people travel on those days

[orac]

meeting times

10:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00

Any other time is off limits.

[Board Game Geek]

12pm - 2pm is luncheon time, for clarification.

11am is for tea and cake, and 3pm is for afternoon tea and possible some cake, if any is left on the trolley.

9am is when people start, and get coffee, and open post and check email, so that's a poor time to choose for a meeting.

Essentially, your best slots are :

9.30am-10.30am

11.15-11.45 am

2.15-2.45 pm

3.15-3.45 pm (which gives 'em 15 mins to make a cuppa before coats and scarves for 4pm)

[Platypus]

It's just not the done thing to schedule a meeting during the luncheon period.

12 pm is lunch time?

Never in my world, with the exception of the US where folks start at 8am.

I do quite a lot of work with Europe. If 12-2 is "dead" time due to lunch, then that makes 11.00 am UK time until 2pm UK time as hours which are out of bounds for meetings

Perhaps the project committee should agree the hours when meetings can be scheduled i.e. when people are not expected to not be at lunch.

Permies

[Board Game Geek]

Whether he's a contractor or a permie doesn't matter.

It's just not the done thing to schedule a meeting during the luncheon period.

If I was the boss and any of my staff pulled that sort of stunt, I'd have words.