workaday Wednesday
Jun. 17th, 2026 06:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatMy usual current boss is out on leave for a bit, so we've had a temporary boss since the end of April. I met with them one (1) time the first week, which went kind of like this:
temporary boss: 'do you need anything from me right now?'
me: 'no'
And that was it. We generally have weekly team meetings, so it's not like I haven't seen them around (not literally, of course they are exempt from the on-site requirements due to being in a different state). But I've rarely met one on one with them.
Which would be completely unremarkable except for the fact that they've scheduled a one on one meeting with me nearly EVERY WEEK -- sometimes MORE THAN ONE per week. And yet somehow EVERY TIME they have some reason to cancel/reschedule them.
Sometimes the cancellation has come literally as the meeting is scheduled to start -- like, I've got it pulled up and have already clicked the Join button. It's a genuinely boggling strategy to me. If ready to meet, why not meet? If not ready to meet, why schedule meeting? (It's not like they're using an existing meeting slot, either! They're doing work to schedule these each time!)
ANYWAY it will not be a surprise to hear that I have a meeting scheduled with temporary boss this morning. (Will it happen? Now THAT would be a surprise!) Time to go find out!
temporary boss: 'do you need anything from me right now?'
me: 'no'
And that was it. We generally have weekly team meetings, so it's not like I haven't seen them around (not literally, of course they are exempt from the on-site requirements due to being in a different state). But I've rarely met one on one with them.
Which would be completely unremarkable except for the fact that they've scheduled a one on one meeting with me nearly EVERY WEEK -- sometimes MORE THAN ONE per week. And yet somehow EVERY TIME they have some reason to cancel/reschedule them.
Sometimes the cancellation has come literally as the meeting is scheduled to start -- like, I've got it pulled up and have already clicked the Join button. It's a genuinely boggling strategy to me. If ready to meet, why not meet? If not ready to meet, why schedule meeting? (It's not like they're using an existing meeting slot, either! They're doing work to schedule these each time!)
ANYWAY it will not be a surprise to hear that I have a meeting scheduled with temporary boss this morning. (Will it happen? Now THAT would be a surprise!) Time to go find out!
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Date: 2026-06-17 05:15 pm (UTC)