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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Morning Meeting: Extended Director's Cut with Extra Words

So I just came out of a meeting that was probably 15-20 minutes worth of material at the very most. He managed to chatter for a solid hour. No kidding. He prattled on about the various slides he was presenting, and rambled about initiatives and acronyms and the business and the customers and ... zzzzz ... and still on the slide with the four points on it and, yes, we know they're in bloody order of importance. You mentioned that 15 minutes ago...several times. I really suspect he had to meet a time quota of 50 minutes, so he used an unnecessary number of words just to fill that time. The result was almost zero retention of any of the information because it was delivered slowly and indiscriminately.

Other important things we got out of the meeting were scribbled on a dry erase board from what we suspect was a weight watchers meeting, and we probably misread due to poor penmanship. That'll teach them to write more legibly. Apparently, you should "pack a night husband." We're not sure how that differs from a regular husband. Barananas, 1 or 2 insui, cabots, clean sticks also played into the mix of their discussion somehow.

Anyway, we decided the most important thing to remember from the meeting are keep it secret, keep it safe, and destroy it. In a close second are PACO which is an unofficial acronym for something uninteresting that we were told we probably shouldn't use as an acronym and we have TMA (which is an acronym that stands for "too many acronyms"). Another productive meeting behind us. On to work.

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