Reply to: Missed meeting - annoyed because nobody told me !!!!

[suityou01]

Same here, I refuse to interact with anyone will I've had at least two coffees.

Ditto. I'm evil Suity until then.

[norrahe]

You and I have summit in common.

Same here, I refuse to interact with anyone will I've had at least two coffees.

[Sysman]

You're being what is called in Europe, "mobbed". They're setting you up to fail. The next step is to give you two tasks which are both impossible to do.

I had that one in Germany from a guy who was standing in while the boss was on holiday.

He put a message in a helldesk queue I didn't have access to then accused me of not doing my job. Hell, I couldn't even see what the problem was.

What kicked it off was that the other Brits all hadn't turned up one morning, presumably after a night on the town, and he wouldn't believe me when I said I hadn't been with them. I of course was the only Brit there that he could have a go at.

[doodab]

Not me!! We have a few people I could name in the office who come in all happy and jolly after their weekend and all I want to do is smash their teeth in. It's not until the 3rd coffee starts to kick in and I mellow a bit.

I normally have my second or third coffee before getting in the shower. Perhaps that's why I'm so perky on a monday morning.

[xoggoth]

It's not until the 3rd coffee starts to kick in and I mellow a bit

You and I have summit in common.

[xoggoth]

Usually avoided too many meetings as contractor as was often not part of a team. I think at interviews they must have sussed me as the sort of bloke who would be happy stuck in a remote corner doing odd bits and pieces.

[JamJarST]

Not me!! We have a few people I could name in the office who come in all happy and jolly after their weekend and all I want to do is smash their teeth in. It's not until the 3rd coffee starts to kick in and I mellow a bit.

So you are grumpy git in real life too

[northernladuk]

People arrive refreshed and raring to go after a lovely weekend

Not me!! We have a few people I could name in the office who come in all happy and jolly after their weekend and all I want to do is smash their teeth in. It's not until the 3rd coffee starts to kick in and I mellow a bit.

[minestrone]

I used to work with a Scottish company who looked after women with bereavement..

Every morning you would have a meeting at 10 which would last until 12, you got about 3 hours of coding done in the afternoon as clocking off time was 4.

[MaryPoppins]

People arrive refreshed and raring to go after a lovely weekend

Christ, that's not how I feel on a Monday morning.

[doodab]

Monday morning is a very silly time to have a team meeting. People arrive refreshed and raring to go after a lovely weekend and the first thing you do is bore the tulip out of them and run through a big list of things that are going wrong. Hardly the best way to motivate people is it.

[Clippy]

Went to toilet came back everyone disappeared....

Had an inkling (due to the fact the place was empty!) that there might be a meeting but I knew not where. Of course, they all came back and the manager asks where I was !!!! Of course, I told him that nobody told me about it.

Nice one. So I look like either a) couldnt be arsed to go or b) so disorganised I forgot.

Just think about how much you earned whilst on the throne whilst the rest of client co were having their senses dulled further by an inane meeting on a Monday morning.

[minestrone]

If I am taken on board to code I often deliberately avoid meeting as a contractor, I take the opinion that I am there as a coder, I am not there to discuss working practice or change opinion but there to hack in whatever change request they have over the stinking code base.

The 'group meetings' in a time reserved room usually are just a waste of time.

[oracleslave]

Went to toilet came back everyone disappeared....

I think I can smell it from here. I'm off!

[suityou01]

You're being what is called in Europe, "mobbed". They're setting you up to fail. The next step is to give you two tasks which are both impossible to do.

WNATS