Meeting Shmeeting

Good, glorious morning to you, my kind and literate friends! I'm sure that you are anxious, as am I, to finish the tasks that we must complete before dismissing ourselves for home to celebrate Fryday's arrival. It's been a long week for some of us, and based on the number of meetings I've been required to attend this week, am amazed that I was able to accomplish as much as I did. My busy-ness prevented me from blogging yesterday and I'm feeling bad about that so today, I'll blog for ten to compensate.

What the funk was I doing, you ask? I was meeting and in fact, met multiple times this week. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely see the benefit of the weekly two hour meeting to give an oral report on the work you've been doing and the work that may not get done as a result of losing two hours of productivity for the sake of team building and interpersonal communication. At a time when we are being asked by our employers to do more with less, the time deduction factor of the weekly meeting gives the phrase "doing more with less" new meaning for me. I'm doing more with less because the mandatory meeting is taking the time I need more of to get the work done.

My beef that will later be fried today in swine lard?

I recently participated in a two hour meeting (in addition to the two hour weekly meeting) thinking that the session would result in a concrete, actionable proposal so that the need for a follow up meeting would be eliminated. I could scarcely contain my joy as I began thinking about all of the work I could accomplish! So, dear reader, you can imagine my reaction when I learned that another meeting has been requested so that we can review, again, everything that we accomplished in the previous meeting but this time, a four hour time allotment would be preferred. Are you funking kidding me?

I'm going to submit my presence at this next meeting by proxy so that I might preserve more time to spread a little more joy in the world while doing less of the work I so love doing. Does anyone second the motion? Meeting adjourned.

Have a cheerful weekend!

Funk, out.