Reply to: Flipwit meeting requests

[d000hg]

Meetings outside working hours don't go and when questioned say "surely that was a typo, why would there be a meeting outside working hours when nobody is here?"
Or say you will have to get the extra hours authorised in advance for your timesheet.

[norrahe]

They have 'Town Hall Meetings' round 'ere.
I never get the invites - which is fortunate, as a refusal oftens offends

they have "morning prayer meetings" here

No one at my current contract seems to understand the concept of lunch, it's quite common to get meetings stuck in yer lunch hour.

Another fun item is meetings that start well before office hours and ones that get slotted in just so they overrun on a Friday arvo

[Pogle]

They have 'Town Hall Meetings' round 'ere.
I never get the invites - which is fortunate, as a refusal oftens offends

[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?

[vetran]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Sysman]

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

Surely a missed marketing opportunity there.

[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.

[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]

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'.

[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!

[TroubleAtMill]

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. Usually on technologies that their employer will never ever use. Presentation usually done at lunch time where you would bring your lunch in a 'brown bag' - another stoopid Americanism.

If the number of brown bag sessions is quite high, it's time to check for brown trousers.

[singhr]

when kids peed themselves at our school they had to carry their pants home in a brown bag, running the gauntlet. Could it be something to do with that?