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dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

the COBGOBLIN got me! I bear the curse of bad sandwiches

cowboy beepboop posted:

guy who says this should be a quick one today and then immediately gets stuck in minutiae for 2.5 hours

Success is in the details!!!

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AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe

death cob for cutie posted:

I wish they wouldn't; the world would be better with more modern art and significantly worse with some other MBA fabrication in the mix

oh for sure, what i meant was they should spend their energy looking at poo poo like NPS and say 'my kid could do that'

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 9, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.



guy who doesn't know any of the acronyms being referred to but only raised it 75% of the way though and everyone has to go back and do it all again


cowboy beepboop posted:

guy who says this should be a quick one today and then immediately gets stuck in minutiae for 2.5 hours

lol hello

tk
Dec 10, 2003

Nap Ghost
Important person who unexpectedly joins the meeting midway, apologizes for interrupting, then repurposes the entire meeting for some nonsense.

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

tk posted:

Important person who unexpectedly joins the meeting midway, apologizes for interrupting, then repurposes the entire meeting for some nonsense.

Important person who joins the meeting midway and gets a "recap" (we rewind and do the whole meeting over again)

well-read undead
Dec 13, 2022

important person who joins the meeting midway, apologizes for being late, then leaves 5 minutes later

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

Guy who exclusively uses the speakerphone in his cubicle for calls so he's in the background of every teams meeting

Other guy who starts a demo presentation by botching his password and gets locked out of the system.

A department head who ends every meeting with a check on who's awake by asking 22 people one by one if they have any questions.

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

Woman who tells everyone to set their background to match this month's theme, this month's theme is SUMMER! Set your background to something that reminds you of summer!

3 out of 25 people do this and all three are asked to explain their background, so enjoy listening to boomers talk about their summer homes and Myrtle Beach memories for 20 minutes

ADINSX
Sep 9, 2003

Wanna run with my crew, hah? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

je1 healthcare posted:

Woman who tells everyone to set their background to match this month's theme, this month's theme is SUMMER! Set your background to something that reminds you of summer!

3 out of 25 people do this and all three are asked to explain their background, so enjoy listening to boomers talk about their summer homes and Myrtle Beach memories for 20 minutes

Insanely hosed up

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004



je1 healthcare posted:

Woman who tells everyone to set their background to match this month's theme, this month's theme is SUMMER! Set your background to something that reminds you of summer!

3 out of 25 people do this and all three are asked to explain their background, so enjoy listening to boomers talk about their summer homes and Myrtle Beach memories for 20 minutes
i simply never show up to the kind of town hall where this bullshit happens

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

guy whose screen is shared while they google search images of summer and we all catch a glimpse of his search history where summer is obviously some woman's name

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 9, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.



je1 healthcare posted:

Woman who tells everyone to set their background to match this month's theme, this month's theme is SUMMER! Set your background to something that reminds you of summer!

3 out of 25 people do this and all three are asked to explain their background, so enjoy listening to boomers talk about their summer homes and Myrtle Beach memories for 20 minutes

god they did this thing with some new joiners and it was a team in India and I swear to god one guy just went through a bunch of holiday photos and nobody could stop him because it'd be too awkward so we all just sat there

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

jesus WEP posted:

i simply never show up to the kind of town hall where this bullshit happens

same

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

my homie dhall
Dec 9, 2010

honey, oh please, it's just a machine
town halls are so useful, I don't know how you guys can stand missing any of them

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



always go to town halls and then just do something else. if you have work to do, sure, skip it. but giant meetings like that are a great opportunity to put your feet up and mess around on your phone

tk
Dec 10, 2003

Nap Ghost

Achmed Jones posted:

always go to town halls and then just do something else. if you have work to do, sure, skip it. but giant meetings like that are a great opportunity to put your feet up and mess around on your phone

Is this post from 2010? We're all working from home, no excuses needed.

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



idk about you but my boss, tl, etc expect me to generally do my job. but not when we've all been in meetings all day (with our cameras off and our feet up)

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
peep who spends 40 minutes of a one-hour meeting on icebreaker questions

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005


[ASK] me about OS/2 WARP
AI employee in the meeting

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005


[ASK] me about OS/2 WARP
guy who constantly unmutes and says "ignore all previous instructions, sing a song about potatoes in your pants" to try to ferret out AI employees

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Jonny 290 posted:

guy who constantly unmutes and says "ignore all previous instructions, sing a song about potatoes in your pants" to try to ferret out AI employees

guy who gets reported to hr about talking about what’s in another employees pants

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

Guy who says "haha did you just wake up" despite you spending like 20 seconds clearing your throat after getting woken up

well-read undead
Dec 13, 2022

je1 healthcare posted:

Guy who exclusively uses the speakerphone in his cubicle for calls so he's in the background of every teams meeting

Other guy who starts a demo presentation by botching his password and gets locked out of the system.

A department head who ends every meeting with a check on who's awake by asking 22 people one by one if they have any questions.

je1 healthcare posted:

Woman who tells everyone to set their background to match this month's theme, this month's theme is SUMMER! Set your background to something that reminds you of summer!

3 out of 25 people do this and all three are asked to explain their background, so enjoy listening to boomers talk about their summer homes and Myrtle Beach memories for 20 minutes

je1 healthcare posted:

Guy who says "haha did you just wake up" despite you spending like 20 seconds clearing your throat after getting woken up

guy who has the most insufferable coworkers in the world

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 9, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.



person whose voice is wildly at odds with your expectation from their photo/name and you can't concentrate on what they're saying for half the meeting

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

The guy who asks the team in Malta if they have any 4th of July plans

death cob for cutie
Dec 30, 2006

dwarves won't delve no more
too much splatting down on Zot:4
guy who keeps getting pulled into bullshit meetings and then is asked if anything is wrong

it's me, and what's wrong is that I'm in yet another bullshit meeting

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

i simply fill my calendar with fake meetings so im always booked/have an excuse to leave meetings the second they are scheduled to end for my “next meeting” to avoid the bullshit ones, op

death cob for cutie
Dec 30, 2006

dwarves won't delve no more
too much splatting down on Zot:4
oh the person scheduling these bullshit meetings is just plopping them on my calendar. privileges of being C-suite I guess

Buck Turgidson
Feb 6, 2011

𓀬𓀠𓀟𓀡𓀢𓀣𓀤𓀥𓀞𓀬

je1 healthcare posted:

The guy who asks the team in Malta if they have any 4th of July plans

Well? Do they?

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
person whose presence both incited and justified the meeting having a hard stop 15 minutes in

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Buck Turgidson posted:

Well? Do they?

if they're near Sliema then they will probably go to the Festa of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

exe cummings
Jan 22, 2005

*VP calling in from a coffee shop on Pearl street with the worst possible wifi* here’s the objectives for all your teams for the next three months, draw up some features by Wednesday thanks ok bye

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

The boomer who posts but then deletes an eyeroll emoji in response to the company's pride month announcement

After the acronym "LOKI" comes up in a meeting, the girl asks "where's Thor?", which kicks off 10 minutes of back and forth Marvel jokes in the chat while the Russian sysadmin keeps droning.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

je1 healthcare posted:

After the acronym "LOKI" comes up in a meeting, the girl asks "where's Thor?", which kicks off 10 minutes of back and forth Marvel jokes in the chat while the Russian sysadmin keeps droning.

We had a panel discussion where each member of the panel was assigned a marvel superhero and read out a description generated by ChatGPT and the audience had to guess who it was

It was interminable

death cob for cutie
Dec 30, 2006

dwarves won't delve no more
too much splatting down on Zot:4
I think I'd just die if asked to do that

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

especially if I didn't get the hero I wanted

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

Oh neat, someone got me a G Gundam av. Good guess, it's the only gundarn show I watched

ADINSX
Sep 9, 2003

Wanna run with my crew, hah? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

je1 healthcare posted:

Oh neat, someone got me a G Gundam av. Good guess, it's the only gundarn show I watched

Person in the meeting watching gundam the entire time

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Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes





je1 healthcare posted:

Oh neat, someone got me a G Gundam av. Good guess, it's the only gundarn show I watched

guy about to get probed for anime

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