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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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6 November 2003 - 10:39 pm
Let's say that it's late in the day and you want to schedule a meeting with your co-workers. For example, let's assume that it is 6:13 pm. Now, knowing that a number of your co-workers don't get into the office, what would be a good time to schedule a meeting for the following day? Nine o'clock, you say? Aren't you afraid your fellow employees, who left work more than an hour ago, and who won't be back until nine tomorrow might not find out about the meeting until five minutes after it starts? Not to mention the fact that this is a code review meeting, and your co-workers are supposed to spend some time going over the print out of the code you gave them at least 24 hours in advance. You did give them print outs of your code already, didn't you? No? Well, who cares, schedule the meeting for nine anyway. You wouldn't actually want to get any useful feedback, would you?
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As you may have guessed, one of my pet peeves is people who, late one evening, schedule a meeting for early the next morning. I've nearly been burnt by this a few times, so I now check my calendar every night before bed. But what really gets under my skin is that fact that I've come in early for meetings like this on more than one occasion, only to find that the meeting organizer failed to make it in for his own meeting. If that happens tomorrow, I will be very unhappy. Especially since I left a process running overnight that I would prefer to deal with as soon as I get in to work tomorrow.
Maybe I'll go in early tomorrow. Its always nice to be able to leave around three on a Friday.
Posted by on 6 November 2003 at 10:39 PM
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Here's my pet peeve -- people who schedule meetings or agree that they can attend then and then show up late, leaving everybody waiting on their arrival.
As for David's lament, I recall in grad school showing up for a meeting with about 6 other people there from the research group, and when the meeting started, nobody was sure why we were there or who actually called the meeting. Spooky.
Posted by rkc on 10 November 2003 - 6:27 AM