It's the dream

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• Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  lol do office job meetings actually tell you that because that’s hilarious

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah it happens a lot. At my job people are given 40 hours (or more, without overtime) of work to be done, and then call meetings that eat up into those hours, so ending early gives people back the time the meeting took away from them.

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Naw. Naw man. Shit naw man I believe you’d get your ass kicked for something like that man.

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  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes

    I’ve been told I’ve been given “the gift of time”

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I am a dumbass trades guy so I definitely sound like that a lot to office guys lol

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hear it at the end of almost every single meeting and it’s typically for less than five minutes. I’ve had people get near the end of a meeting, extend it by half an hour, but only go 15min over, and then still say they’re giving us time back

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are giving negative time back.

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  • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, although I appreciate those minutes because my dailies overlap with the time interval my body decides is time to take a shit

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  • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In my experience it’s usually when the meeting ends like 30 minutes before it’s scheduled to.

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hear it daily.

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d cut my ears off.

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  • Darkmuch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Eh, I hear it a lot at my job. But that’s because meetings usually go way longer than they should. So anytime it ends early people are quite pleased.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boss does it regularly

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  • expr@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah… I do hear it a lot.

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• zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  hey that’s four more precious minutes to disassociate from the horrors than i was planning so i’ll take it!

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• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now I don’t have to pee in a bottle under my desk

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• konomikitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Worst part is it works with and without sarcasm. Get 5 mins into that hobby before you have to get back to the grind.

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  • entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or just 5 minutes to close your eyes and clear your mind. When you have back to back meetings most of the day, it’s pretty nice.

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• ddplf@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t get the point of this tweet honestly

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  • peregrin5@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s probably only relatable if you have a corporate job.

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    • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No no, it’s just that I don’t understand what’s she getting at - is she complaining that it’s bad that the meeting ended 4 minutes earlier than planned and it may as well take the full time? Like yeah, but why would it?

      Or is she complaining that it was only 4 minutes and not like 20 (cause she wanted time for hobbies) - but in this case, just leave this job and become a travelling merchant or some shit

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think they hope it’s satire.

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    • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It obviously is, it’s just that a joke needs to make some elementary sense in order to be funny

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• Wbear@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That phrase should only be used if it’s a significant chunk of time, like half the scheduled meeting length or more.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My management tricks (which came from being managed) included calling for a 90 minute meeting if I needed 45 minutes, and bring snacks.

    Oh and when someone finishes an all day job in half a day, let them goof off for the rest of the day.

    But then I believed that whole happy workers are maximally productive workers thing that, well, every serious management study reports.

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• 2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They say this, but if I sat for 5 minutes doing nothing (if it’s not my break), they’d be on my ass. I’d prefer the meeting so I can rest my eyes at least while they’re talking.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had a meeting today that was awesome.

  Other: There’s nothing to do.

  Me: Ok, if there’s nothing to do then that’s fine.

  Other: Ok, thanks.

  Me: Hope you have a good day.

  Other: You too, bye.

  This is completely counter to my previous job, where we’d spend two hours talking about nothing and I’d quietly seethe with anger.

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