Short Day Hangover.
Thursday, September 15, 2005Ok, so yeah, being way to busy sucks. Having three half days out of a four day stretch is cool, and very slackerly. The problem is since almost no work gets done, it creates a backlog that has to get done eventually.
Right now, if each thing I had to do was a packing peanut, by cubicle would look like this:
Yeah, I'm buried. And like usual, my boss is being an idiot and schedules worthless meetings. I actually told him off about it in a meeting today. I cancelled one he had scheduled for tomorrow because she scheduled it in a meeting room at another building 15 minutes away that none of our group works at. Hellllllloooo????
The meeting is usually worthless anyway, it's scheduled for an hour and a half, and the content of the meeting could easily be condensed into a half hour. Sometimes it could simply be condensed into EMAIL!
Yes indeed, I think if I were to knock on this guy's head I would hear an echo, or something like that. Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss has more brains than him. I had to do everything I could in a full department meeting the other day not to say him name after our Director said that we should identify any "non value-added" items in our department or anything that slows productivity.
Anyway, back to work. Bleah. At least I have kickball tonight, so that will be fun :O)
Later all.
posted by Chief Slacker @ 1:00 PM,
15 Comments:
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At Thu Sep 15, 01:58:00 PM,
Marie said...
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Busy, busy, busy!! I hear ya on the worthless meetings. Man, that takes up SO much time when you could be productive actually doing the work needed.
Have fun at kickball tonight!! :) -
At Thu Sep 15, 05:53:00 PM,
OzzyC said...
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Welcome to Corporate America... the place where incompetent bosses rob us of our time by scheduling long, meaningless meetings, and heap shitloads of work on us, so they can go golfing. Ah yes, Corporate America, the only place in the world where you have to do two weeks' worth of work the week before your three day vacation, an have to do two weeks' worth of work when you get back.
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At Thu Sep 15, 06:40:00 PM,
Kira said...
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ahhhh being an adjunct instructor means no dumb meetings! yay!
Ok, it also means no money. boo... -
At Fri Sep 16, 01:58:00 AM,
Nadia said...
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i know those waste ur time ,fall alseep meetings ,i have no idea why people got to torture ppl like this,i have it worse cos theres liek 2-3 meetings everyday here at work and its just makes u more tired...:(
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At Fri Sep 16, 04:01:00 AM,
Paulius said...
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I used to have to deal with a hour long meeting every single week.
They were mandatory, despite the fact that 90% of the time we either had a 5 minute discussion or nothing to talk about at all. -
At Fri Sep 16, 07:51:00 AM,
Anisa said...
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i've been busy too, and i am SO relieved it's friday...FINALLY!!
hope you get back to slacking ASAP. -
At Fri Sep 16, 08:25:00 AM,
Tyjen said...
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packing peanuts! good luck with work and kickball!
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At Fri Sep 16, 03:12:00 PM,
said...
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I'm a huge Dilbert fan. Dogbert all the way.
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At Fri Sep 16, 03:17:00 PM,
Sunny said...
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LMAO_ You know- It took me a few minutes to realize what that pink stuff was. To me it looks like the popcorn store in Charleston and that looks EXACTLY like the bin for the bubblegum flavored popcorn.
As for the meetings....if I have a deadline and am working on it- the useless meetings are an annoyance- otherwise- I look at them as slacking(definition of slacking-"Doing fuck-all and getting nothing productive done") and as long as I'm getting PAID for slacking- I don't care.
;-)
I really am getting the hang of this slacking and beginning to enjoy it......except where the kitchen is involved...very unsanitary.....
LMAO!!! -
At Sat Sep 17, 07:27:00 PM,
Amanda said...
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It's not just Corporate America; it's exactly the same in the universities. Next week, I have at least two meetings everyday. Now, when exactly am I supposed to write, edit, design, and do all that other stuff?? Oh wait, I've found my magic wand!
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At Sun Sep 18, 12:18:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Marie - I don't know about being productive, but at least I could be doing other fun things like bloging instead of sitting bored in a meeting ;O) It was fun!
OzzyC - Yeah, I imagine hell would be just like Corprate America, but with more beauracracy and flames and stuff.
Kira - Yeah, getting pid does smooth over some of the problems.
Nadz - Yeah, that's the other reason I hate them, they alwaymake me want to sleep and then it's hard to do anything afterward :O(
Paulius - That's basically what this meeting is, 1.5 hours with only about 15 minutes filler. Stupid.
Anisa - Now that I had another long weekend due to being sick, I'll get right on it ;O)
Sub Girl - Gotta love the fun things you can do with packing peanuts! We did something like taht to my buddy's car for his wedding :O)
Cap B - Dogbert does rule, I think we need to hire him and have him clean house at our company.
Sunny - Bubble gum flavored popcorn??? That's just WRONG! I'm a popcorn purist, even kettle corn I'm not so big o because they put sugar on it. Popcorn should taste like butter and salt and THAT'S IT! :O) hehe And like I said above, I'd much rather slack by blogging or watching DVDs on my computer, not sitting in a lame ass meeting with the boss I hate...
Amanda - Oooh, a Magic Wand, could I borrow it and turn the stupid boss into a toad?? That would make the meetings so much more entertaining!!! -
At Sun Sep 18, 02:12:00 PM,
Sunny said...
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Funny- I absolutely DETEST regular flavored popcorn-(to me it smells like a gym locker with a months supply of dirty socks in it)- but Caramel and peanuts popcorn is my favorite. You would absolutle HATE the Popcorn Factory in Charleston SC if you're a popcorn purist. They have flavors like blueberry, watermelon(GAG), Chocolate, coffee, banana(GAG), bosenberry... about 250 flavors. I don't even have to look when I go in.
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At Sun Sep 18, 02:33:00 PM,
said...
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If your going to waste my banwidth at least give me a backlink. DF Pranks - Universe of Pranks
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At Tue Sep 20, 10:31:00 AM,
NWJR said...
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Love the peanut cubicle. Wish I'd thought of it...I'd have done that to an annoying co-worker on my last day of work.
Heh. -
At Wed Sep 21, 01:56:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Michael - Don't hate the googler, hate the Google.
NWJR - yeah, much fun!