Meeting Etiquete
So you’re stuck in a meeting, where you’d rather not be, as by the time it finishes you’ll have been in 3 hours of meetings, your brain is in thermonuclear meltdown and you just want to be out of there (if only so you can carry on cursing at the speed visio is running at).
You find that no matter how hard you try in meetings you’ve had all day, nobody wants to hear what you’re saying, this of course when you get you can get a word in edgewise. You’re tired of having been asked to do a job and nobody takes you seriously except the odd people who agree with you. People doing things and not telling you so when you do them you look like a twat. Then there’s someone asking you to do something and you doing it, not giving the answer one person wants so they go off and do that anyway. I feel that I’ll be spending the entire length of my contract pushing stuff around and not doing much.
I’m not the golden child, I don’t admit to being it, I just don’t think my skills are being used to their best. I’m bored, lacking direction, motivation and it’s getting me down a lot. Nothing I do is good enough compared to what my colleague has done in the past, and I’m begining to think she’d be better off doing the work, goodness knows my boss has already given stuff to her to do that I thought I should be doing, without discussing it with me. So what’s the point in doing anything at all.
I’m just moaning on here, ’cause I’ve got nobody else to moan to and I’m not sure anyone would care either.
November 16th, 2005 at 9:13 pm
well i don’t care, so stop moaning.
‘you hate your job’. fine. go find another. or resign and face a future full of uncertainty and fun.
if i can give up medicine you can give up whatever-it-is-you-do. come spend your waking hours running, swimming, planning this winters snowboarding tour and wondering how to win the hearts of canadian girls [tho in your case, canadian boys].
i await your call.
ro.
[not holding his breath]
November 17th, 2005 at 8:22 am
You know I really wish I could quit, sadly I’ve got bills that need a payin’. Although snowboarding sounds fun (read fun as a good way to break my neck as I can’t ski)… Still I like snow.
Anyway, for some reason I’ve managed to get myself into a contract that has no notice period, I can’t seem to leave until it ends in bloody march. They snuck that one past me without discussing it with me. C’est la vie.
November 21st, 2005 at 2:09 pm
Welcome to the wonderful world of working for the Government!!!!
I find the best thing to do is keep your head down and batter through as much tea and biscuits as possible before they realise your not doing anything and make your post redundant.
Cheers!
November 21st, 2005 at 3:22 pm
This coming from someone who’s seen everyone he works with get made redundant except himself… not sure what point one is trying to make here?
November 23rd, 2005 at 11:41 am
Quiet. You’ll expose my evil secret!
Don’t make me set my flying monkeys on you now.