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[standardtom]

I hate meetings in which everyone runs around the mulberry bush hashing out a non-issue for 45 minutes, and then finally decide to "just leave everything alone, really, it's fine, it really is, oh, no need, yeah, this is cool..."

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[tropicstyle.livejournal.com]

The post was just an excuse to get to use the icon..

[standardtom.livejournal.com]

hmmm, looks like there's another to add to the list... ;)

[tropicstyle.livejournal.com]

*hands you the sharpie*

[standardtom.livejournal.com]

Ganked it, same as all the others... ;)

I loved the picture of Piglet and modified the wording a bit. :)

[ursusarctos.livejournal.com]

Could have been more interesting if it went, say, like this:
A meeting in which everyone runs around the mulberry bush hashing out a non-issue for 45 minutes, and then finally decide to "just Tom fix whatever problem, BUT with our constant input and changes. Then blame HIM for it's failure."
*fleeing before a non-hot beating is administered::

[standardtom.livejournal.com]

Actually... if you get right down to the truth itself, that's essentially how most of them go. :-|

[standardtom.livejournal.com]

And by the way... God, I love that icon of yours!

[ursusarctos.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's from goofing off with PhotoBooth and the MacBoook Pro. More to come.

[poohbearjim.livejournal.com]

Funny, I didn't see you sitting in the room in the meeting I was in today. You just described it perfectly.

[bearfinch.livejournal.com]

I was going to say the same thing!

Something about working in Post-secondary education I guess?

[poohbearjim.livejournal.com]

OMG, I thought I was going to shoot myself. They went on and on about how to properly define the word "event" and ended up with no resolution. I felt sorry for the IT guys because that had nothing to do with the reason they called the meeting. All they wanted to do was to do a quick overview/update on how the migration of data from Datatel to CampusVue was going!

[ursusarctos.livejournal.com]

I was told ages ago that in education there is no resolution, only the myth of concensus. Which is a latin word meaning "everyone is bitched off and tired of this circle jerk - let's go home". Anywhere close to true?

[poohbearjim.livejournal.com]

Let's put it this way - after sitting through the meeting for an hour and a half, I couldn't take it anymore and just left. No one questioned my decision. *g*