And yet again ...
By joe
- 1 minutes read - 170 wordsMe: (presents A) “So what do you think?” Them: “Hmmm … nice but what comes after A?” Me: “Lets get another time slot and I’ll go over that” (time passes … order of weeks) Me: (presents post-A) “So what do you think” Them: “Hmmm … nice but what comes after post-A?” Me: “Lets get another time slot and I’ll go over that” (time passes … order of several months, lets call B as post post-A, and we hit important business milestones) Me: (presents B) “So what do you think” Them: “Hmmm … nice but what about A?” Combine this with some other mixed messages, and you have one of my meetings. All you can do is blink rapidly sometimes, admit that your time was being wasted, and move on. There are days I really enjoy my work (like when I get to work with customers on big hairy storage and computing problems). This wasn’t one of them. And a beer to the person who guesses the context. Its not hard.