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*

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[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...