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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.” ― Dave Barry Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | ||
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Absolutely!!! --- Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
"People who enjoy having meetings should never be in charge of anything." I'm not sure who said this, maybe Thomas Sowell? But it's true. This is often satirized in the Dilbert comic. | |||
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God will always provide |
Geez I was going with "Darwin" | |||
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| Ammoholic |
This has long been one of my favorites. Both Dave Barry and Scott Adams have very keen senses of business and what is going on, not to mention humor. | |||
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Used to have this CEO that scheduled meetings at the drop of a hat. Glad he is gone... --------------------------------------- It's like my brain's a tree and you're those little cookie elves. | |||
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| Master of one hand pistol shooting  |
Too many meetings, and not enough doings, makes for little progress SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I long ago determined that the only purpose meetings serve is to determine when the next meeting was going to be. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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When you have pre-meetings to prep for the regular weekly meetings you can write off productivity. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” - Dr. Thomas Sowell _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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As I frequently say at work. “The Romans did not conquer the known world with meetings!!” "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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I've known staff meetings to realistically be "staph infections" as that is the most likely item to be communicated. | |||
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| I have not yet begun to procrastinate |
^^^THIS^^^ Having worked for a public safety municipal agency, meetings are like the black plague or the 1918 flu epidemic. Once it starts, there's no cure. -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. |
My business is not that of an office-type environment like Dilbert's where staff meetings are common, but over the years I have run into "meeting lovers." One crumpled up a piece of paper, called it "the ball" and had everybody pass it around. Some "dropped the 'ball,'" others picked it up and ran with it. And he was an even bigger horse's ass the rest of the time, so I voted with my feet. | |||
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| Ignored facts still exist |
Anyone else dealing with the joys of Skype, web-X, Lync, gotomeeting, or other on line meetings? These are another story. Dogs barking, kids screaming, car and traffic sounds, people forgetting to mute and talking to.someone else about a totally different topic, people dropping from bad connections, and then rejoining. People who have headsets that sound like crap. Heavy breathers. People who just aren't listening . The list goes on. All from your coworkers. In 2017, I spent around 300 hours in Skype meetings. I'm not proud of that fact. ---------------------- Let's Go Brandon! | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Dear God! That is 25 hours a month! Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| Ammoholic |
At cisco, we enginerds had an acronym for useless time wasting garbage that we weren’t always successful in avoiding. The acronym is YAFM - if memory serves, the PC translation was “Yet Another Fine Meeting.” I’m pretty sure that most of us translated it with something other than “Fine” though... | |||
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| Ignored facts still exist |
Now you know why some of my posts seem to be from a brain dead person. ---------------------- Let's Go Brandon! | |||
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