Meeting Agenda

Well, it’s out there now. On Sunday morning I had to attend a 2 hour meeting at work. I use the term “meeting” loosely since generally what happens is a lecture that goes on and on forever. How awesome is it to sit in a room and be told for a couple of hours all the things you should know already and where “some of you” just aren’t cutting it? So inspiring!!

I tell myself all the time to just sit in the boat and row. This is a mindless weekend job that lets me clock in and clock out and no more. I’ve never once been late, never called in, and am focused on the financial end game. Yes, this is of course leading up to the point that I have ditched my own advice. I actually asked them if I could host our next “meeting.” I came home and typed up a sample agenda and included suggestions for team activities and everything. So much for rowing!

I don’t think I can stand to sit through one more of these. All that “leadership” and not one of them have any presentation skills. No sense of their audience at all! We have people that just started and people that have been there for almost 30 years. I was looking at everyone around me and there was a range from half asleep to “they aren’t talking about me” looks to counting tiles in the ceiling and well, you get the idea. Totally lost on the people that were literally reading documentation to us.

So like I said, it’s out there now. I turned in my suggestions. I’m really hoping that I am coming across as being helpful and not over-stepping. Then again, this job was never meant to last this long. Still, if I decide to try and come back around the holidays, it sure would be nice if I didn’t burn any bridges. I’m not going back until Saturday so it should be interesting to see if it even gets mentioned to me.

Row, row, row your boat….