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The uselessness of meetings
Jan. 11th, 2008 11:46 amLast night's meeting wasn't quite as painful as I'd thought it would be, but twice as annoying as it should have been. Whoever thought having a required meeting for 5000 begin at 6pm on a Thursday night is a masochist. I-5 was a disaster, not to mention the poor MPs at the gate who were completely unprepared for the onslaught. Really, couldn't this have been done on a Saturday?
First up was a power point demonstration of "necessary information". Just bloody send it to me, will ya? Better yet, spare us the goofy clip art. Its not cute anymore. Second up was a little speech by the Lutheran chaplain who had zero charisma whatsoever. Blah. Third up were multiple quickie speeches by various family support groups, each seemed to have sent their bronchitis-laden softest spoken person to speak on their behalf. Needless to say, I heard not a single sentence out of the Red Cross employee, which is a group I've volunteered with before and was interested in getting involved with again.
Thoughts -
If your presentation is mostly to support families with children, do the rest of us a favor and have a Child Free meeting so we can get through all this in one quarter the time and without screaming children. 90% of the meeting was completely useless to Josh and I as 1) we don't have children, 2) we manage to live within our means (most of the time, anyway) and 3) we own our own home.
First up was a power point demonstration of "necessary information". Just bloody send it to me, will ya? Better yet, spare us the goofy clip art. Its not cute anymore. Second up was a little speech by the Lutheran chaplain who had zero charisma whatsoever. Blah. Third up were multiple quickie speeches by various family support groups, each seemed to have sent their bronchitis-laden softest spoken person to speak on their behalf. Needless to say, I heard not a single sentence out of the Red Cross employee, which is a group I've volunteered with before and was interested in getting involved with again.
Thoughts -
If your presentation is mostly to support families with children, do the rest of us a favor and have a Child Free meeting so we can get through all this in one quarter the time and without screaming children. 90% of the meeting was completely useless to Josh and I as 1) we don't have children, 2) we manage to live within our means (most of the time, anyway) and 3) we own our own home.
