workaday... Thursday?
Apr. 24th, 2025 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicat*LOL everything was fine at work. Not even sure they noticed I wasn't there.
*I do feel a lot of sympathy for one of my coworkers, who has the unenviable role of being the person asked to "look into" every fleeting idea that pops into the heads of our bosses.
*My role is much more along the lines of saying things like 'that would take at least six weeks to get approved,' which is much longer than most of the fleeting ideas last, and also has the benefit of being true.
*I keep forgetting it's Thursday, because yesterday was my work!Monday. Gotta get ready for that Thursday morning meeting!
*haha just kidding, the Thursday morning meeting is mostly just me saying a bunch of random stuff about the projects I'm assigned
*there is no value to the Thursday morning meeting; it was created two bosses ago because that boss didn't want to boss but kept getting asked the status of my projects; so they made me do a book-report style meeting every week for everyone who asked; all I'm supposed to do is read out the status that's already shown in the project tracker
*and then the two bosses after them were just like 'idk I guess this meeting must be important let's not rock the boat'
*and I don't want to be the one to tell them that it's not, because I like to maintain the illusion
*sometimes I also update people on the drought tracker
*SPEAK TRUTHS, REVEAL NOTHING: a valid workplace strategy
*I do feel a lot of sympathy for one of my coworkers, who has the unenviable role of being the person asked to "look into" every fleeting idea that pops into the heads of our bosses.
*My role is much more along the lines of saying things like 'that would take at least six weeks to get approved,' which is much longer than most of the fleeting ideas last, and also has the benefit of being true.
*I keep forgetting it's Thursday, because yesterday was my work!Monday. Gotta get ready for that Thursday morning meeting!
*haha just kidding, the Thursday morning meeting is mostly just me saying a bunch of random stuff about the projects I'm assigned
*there is no value to the Thursday morning meeting; it was created two bosses ago because that boss didn't want to boss but kept getting asked the status of my projects; so they made me do a book-report style meeting every week for everyone who asked; all I'm supposed to do is read out the status that's already shown in the project tracker
*and then the two bosses after them were just like 'idk I guess this meeting must be important let's not rock the boat'
*and I don't want to be the one to tell them that it's not, because I like to maintain the illusion
*sometimes I also update people on the drought tracker
*SPEAK TRUTHS, REVEAL NOTHING: a valid workplace strategy
