lol do office job meetings actually tell you that because that’s hilarious
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Yeah it happens a lot (well with at least 10 mins more). 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.
Naw. Naw man. Shit naw man I believe you’d get your ass kicked for saying something like that man.
Nope, it's a real thing. Granted, I mostly see it used when a meeting ends 30-40 minutes early.
It’s a quote from Office Space.
Ahhh, ok. Never seen it, I'm afraid.
Yes
I’ve been told I’ve been given “the gift of time”
Edit: This is how I read your comment: https://youtu.be/guv5LUT1AFw
I am a dumbass trades guy so I definitely sound like that a lot to office guys lol
Honestly there’s so much dumb shit like that I wish I could say
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
They are giving negative time back.
Yeah, although I appreciate those minutes because my dailies overlap with the time interval my body decides is time to take a shit
In my experience it's usually when the meeting ends like 30 minutes before it's scheduled to.
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.
I hear it daily.
I’d cut my ears off.
Sometimes I get a 1 hour meeting ending in 20 min.
I'm glad to hear it.
Yeah.. I do hear it a lot.
Boss does it regularly
hey that's four more precious minutes to disassociate from the horrors than i was planning so i'll take it!
Now I don’t have to pee in a bottle under my desk
Worst part is it works with and without sarcasm. Get 5 mins into that hobby before you have to get back to the grind.
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.
I don't get the point of this tweet honestly
I think they hope it's satire.
It obviously is, it's just that a joke needs to make some elementary sense in order to be funny
That phrase should only be used if it's a significant chunk of time, like half the scheduled meeting length or more.
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.
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.
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.