Because it's Wednesday, that's why

[digitaldiscipline]

I loathe meetings.

Three hours on Monday (plus coming in an hour early because it's scheduled for 8, only to have everyone else show up at 8:45). Four hours on Tuesday.

I would be substantially less bitter, I suppose, if I knew I would be getting the $40-60 an hour my time at these things is being billed at to the client. But for nine bucks per, I have better things to do than try and convince my boss to answer the question he's really being asked, and not the one he -thinks- he's being asked. [I naiively assume that, the third time it's been put to him consecutively, by two different people, that would be a strong indication that he's not addressing it.]

Next up: coordinating another big meeting for mid-November! Maybe this one won't be the clusterfuck September's meeting turned into because people will actually listen when I leave them messages.

Taking a leave of absence and sorting sports cards for ten bucks an hour is looking less and less stupid, if it only didn't require being in Buffalo to do it. *sigh*

Comments

[arcsine.livejournal.com]

Heh, I've been through a 30+ person conference call and two snowball effect emails in the past month. So far I've had "our group of a dozen people is leaving the building, so we want to take the server with is. It's ours, right?", and "we bought some random laptops off the street with no virus protection or network security installed, could you join them to the domain and install a bunch of software on them?" Sometimes I'm glad they lock me in the LAN room every day...

Need help on that sports card project?

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

Ahh...meetings. The one thing on earth that prevents me from truly enjoying my job.

I feel for you, trust me. I've spent my week scheduling stuff with vendors who are not grasping the concept that if they want our money, they should come to us, and better yet they should come to us when we want them to and not bitch about how much the airfare is costing. In my opinion, if you want a big bucks contract, do not bitch about having to pay a grand in plane tickets in order to come to a meeting to secure it.

Gah. Meetings.

Re: Need help on that sports card project?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

blarg.

they can fly dipshit class, like the rest of us. or drive. whatever. nobody is making them use business class tickets.

they're VENDORS, their life is to whore themselves out to clients in hopes of getting their business. sheesh.

next up: berating MBE as the next installment of the FedEx fandango with the busted computer that was delivered to ian. yeesh.