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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.
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.
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.
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.
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'
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.
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