Big meeting we had to dress up for is done. They served enough food that I can spoil lunch, but probably not enough to be lunch. Random food too. Nothing as tasty as msbelle's or kat's.
I ran the team meeting yesterday instead of New Guy. We spent the start of it in hilarity about the horribleness of living in the Midwest (ribbing on the team member that calls in from Minnesota). It was pretty clear that this only happens when I run the meetings. I don't think it's a black mark on me (Boss didn't come in for that part of it, so he never need know).
ita, is New Guy behind you a permanent thing? Or just temp? 'cause that sucks.
I've never understood the point of mission statements.
The problem is that so many of them fail to meet the criteria for good mission statements: clear, memorable and measurable. The last two places I worked had mission statements with "world class" in them, e.g. "become a world-class electricity provider." What the hell does that mean? Given the right criteria, anything can be world-class. I am a world-class person named Ginger posting on this board.
Permanent. I'm really bitter about it.
My b.org screen is styled to remove most of the colour and graphics, so I'm not going to restrict my use here much, but other twitchy browsing is going to be curtailed.
Bah! It's just how I work. Dip into work, break brain out.
I often enjoy hilarity in meetings! When the work gets done and the meeting doesn't run long.
My org's official mission statement is really more of a vision and/or tagline. But whatever, it's punchy, at least.
I often enjoy hilarity in meetings!
When I run meetings there's always hilarity. I think it's a great team bonding tool.
I don't think we have a mission statement. But we also don't have a logo or a website.
My team updates (three people) often started with a reality TV roundup, mostly for the benefit of the one of us who worked from home -- I knew she appreciated the "water cooler" chit-chat.
My team updates (three people) often started with a reality TV roundup
I don't think we have anything in common like that in any of my teams. With the business users we drift to other topics, maybe travel, but we haven't gotten to entertainment. Frankly, after seeing the scant Netflix queue of the one guy, I'm in no rush to out myself.
The techie business analyst guy and I sometimes talk offscript about tech stuff, and he checked his phone and brought up a 3D version in some movie franchise I hate and he said "So you don't like science fiction?" I just told him they needed to make a 3D comic book movie and I'd be right there. But what I was really thinking was that he was days behind on the movie news. IO9 had broken it way before.
