Thurs, Nov 2nd - And now for a work meeting....

Last week I had an invite to a meeting from Flakey using the web as a "meeting place". There was no agenda given and no subject other than "subproject update". In short I had no idea what on earth it was about. It was at 09:30 today.

I rushed in, got to my desk with but 2 minutes to spare and opened the web-page to join the meeting. It wanted a password. I checked the email. I re-checked the email. I read it through 3 times. There was no password mentioned. There was a phone number though. Right, I'll try that.

I dialled entered the meeting ID and got asked for a password....

I put the phone handseet down with a sharp crack. Bloody typical. I was about to give up and get a cup of tea instead when a new email pops up 6 minutes after the start. The password is "1234".

I go back to webpage expecting to see a remote slideshow or some new fan-dangled online thing. Here it is:

Yes folks, that's it. Absolutely nothing was there except the names and phone numbers (blacked out to protect identity) and nowt else.

So I rang the number again and put the password in and listen.

It is a meeting about work that everyone else is doing. The stuff I am working on is not on their list (as I later find it on another webpage). Unfortunately they only booked 30 mins and quickly run out of time and are about half-way through.
Flakey decides to call it a day and extend the meeting next time. Oh, and he mentions that he will have to learn how to work the meeting place too.

So there you have it. A typical toxic meeting. It's arranged, they forget to include the password, start late, run out of time and then admit they don't know how to use the meeting tool that they chose to use. Marvellous.