workaday Thursday
Feb. 20th, 2025 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatBOOK CLUB UPDATE: NO SURPRISES HERE
The workplace book club was introduced with mild fanfare in January, with a book selection, plans for weekly posts throughout the month, and a promised (but unscheduled) discussion to be held at a later date.
I read the book. I saw one (1) post about it on the company's online sharing place [look, it used to be google+ when I started, and it's changed SO MANY times since then that I have no idea what it's called now]. I sent an email to the nominal organizer at the start of February, sort of a 'hey, will there be a meeting? was there already a meeting? no pressure, just want to show my support' type message.
SEVERAL WEEKS LATER I received a reply. So sorry for the late reply! the email said. There was no meeting! They had emailed everyone who had RSVP'd to the month-long book club calendar invite to ask if they wanted to have one, and everyone said no.
[TO CLARIFY: I had no idea we were supposed to 'RSVP' to the month-long calendar invite. What?!]
IN CONCLUSION: The 2025 workplace book club has ended EVEN EARLIER than the previous 2018 attempt. Not even one meeting! I expect in another seven years, they'll try again, but possibly no one will know about it, since if the pattern holds, it will last for even less time, and not even reach the point of picking a book.
The workplace book club was introduced with mild fanfare in January, with a book selection, plans for weekly posts throughout the month, and a promised (but unscheduled) discussion to be held at a later date.
I read the book. I saw one (1) post about it on the company's online sharing place [look, it used to be google+ when I started, and it's changed SO MANY times since then that I have no idea what it's called now]. I sent an email to the nominal organizer at the start of February, sort of a 'hey, will there be a meeting? was there already a meeting? no pressure, just want to show my support' type message.
SEVERAL WEEKS LATER I received a reply. So sorry for the late reply! the email said. There was no meeting! They had emailed everyone who had RSVP'd to the month-long book club calendar invite to ask if they wanted to have one, and everyone said no.
[TO CLARIFY: I had no idea we were supposed to 'RSVP' to the month-long calendar invite. What?!]
IN CONCLUSION: The 2025 workplace book club has ended EVEN EARLIER than the previous 2018 attempt. Not even one meeting! I expect in another seven years, they'll try again, but possibly no one will know about it, since if the pattern holds, it will last for even less time, and not even reach the point of picking a book.
