The worst hour of my week I am sure I have mentioned before, is the hour long staff meeting every Monday. It used to be at 9:15 which meant that we could get it over with first thing and I could pour a superstrong cup of coffee and there was no problem other than I hated being in it.
Now though with the merger of that new company, to accommodate another employee on a different time zone, we have these at 4pm which means dreading it all day and then I do tend to get sleepy in the afternoon if there is a meeting.
I have TRIED and TRIED not to fall asleep in meetings in the afternoon but I just cannot help it. I'm fine in the morning but the duller and longer my boss pontificates about subjects like new carts to hold machines in and passwords to unlock them which has nothing to do with my job, I just cannot help it. He's apparently noticed it before. I would say in this one my eyes twitched a bit but it's not like I was full-on snoring with my head on the table or anything.
At any rate, he called me into his office afterward and said "You need to stay awake during our meetings." I tried to explain that my kids wouldn't go to bed last night and Liam was up from 3-5am, they've been sick with fevers, etc but he said "I understand," which is bullshit as his wife likely did all his child rearing. I said D, another writer, always falls asleep too and that's b/c he's up half the night w/ a small child as well but he said "I know I know but I want you to stop. Take a shot of espresso or something."
Cripes. I felt like saying if he would stop going on and on about so much dull BS I would be awake as I was with my last boss's meetings, where in Staff we talked about what we did over the weekend and my boss's most recent bad date (always entertaining) and S's poor luck with women and the meds J was on and Susan's dilemma over having 2 kids going to college for 8 years apiece to get their Bachelor's degrees only to discover her daughter wants to be a plumber or else join the peace corps and her son wants to be a professional snowboarder. Instead now I have to hear about these manufacturing problems and details which would put me to sleep even if I took a bottle of No Doz and drank triple shots of espresso with 10 hours of sleep the night before.
I want to leave here in the worst way. It's like I'm in prison though and have to fulfill my sentence until my kids are out of daycare.
7 comments:
OMG!!! LMAO.... Take a shot of expresso or something!? Geez...liven up dude!!! Why mention anything about it to you? He really needs to keep you out of meetings that do not pertain to you so you can use your time wisely! Unfrickenreal....
When I worked at the library, we always had meetings. Of course, they were also dual functioning potlucks, which made them FUN.
But what I've learned to do, years ago, is bring a pencil and paper and nod your head like you're listening and taking notes.
But you're not. Make lists, "To do" lists. Also, grocery lists, lists for the rest of the week.
You might be suprised by how much ORGANIZING you can do making lists during that hour.
You could make out, a meal list for the week, for evening meals. Then debate crockpot or ?? Then from that, make a M-Sunday list of meals/ingredients.
Trust me. I've been doing this for YEARS.
LOL, I do that list thing ALL the time. But we have so many mtngs in this place there are only so many lists I can make. I've even played tic tac toe against myself.
In this particular mtng I happened to be sitting 2 ft away from my boss so it was tougher. Great suggestions all: so next time 1) Caffeine, 2)try to avoid mtngs by scheduling vaca days on heavy mtng days and 3)more to do lists. Keep 'em coming!
Teachers are smarter than that...We ALWAYS feed people at our meetings! That way you are eating and drinking so you stay awake! :) Seriously, all of our faculty meetings have food and beverages out so that folks have something to snack on and therefore they stay awake.:P Dumbass. That should give him a hint as to how boring he is!!!
I thought I posted on this one. Weird. Coulda sworn I did.
Anyway, that sucks. I'd make lists of "to-do's" and nod your head while you're doing it and make eye-contact every once in a while, so it appears your listening.
That's what I used to do when I got caught in one of those.
Ok I want to be in a meeting with S and I am LMAO at the decription of a really good staff meeting. Mr. Expresso is a prison sentence. I hope you get time off for good behavior!
I miss you! Go back to blogging and don't worry about stalkers. They have no life obviously. I have a few of them in my life also. You are too funny. No wonder someone continued to check up on you- A
BTW- my only solution-get a better job. It will come to you in time. The twins will grow quicker than you think. HANG IN THERE!
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