Repetition
So I go to this meeting today. It's quite a few people and it's run by my boss' boss. The first words out of his mouth were... "This meeting will be mostly a repetition"... After the song yesterday I thought he was making a private joke to me (because he's reading this right now... unless he's not and you are... that is you aren't my boss' boss, then while it's unlikely that he's reading it right now it is certainly possible. Except for right now because I haven't posted it yet I'm still typing into the form in which case I'm almost certain he's not reading it... if he is I got way bigger security problems than him reading this...)phew
So I'm not a fan of status meetings anyways. So when we start one off with "repetition" I just keep getting the song in my head again.. There are a variety of smart ass remarks that can be said after such an opening line.
"so if this is a repetition of last time, does that mean we can ignore you just the same as the last time?"
"are you really here or have they replaced with a Disney automaton that will just keep repeating the status meeting week in week out?"
"so you're still stuck on that idea of Microsoft taking over Banff?"
"But last time you made Chris cry... Shouldn't we ease up just a little?"
"Well if you're repeating last time, I'll just work on my blog"
I opted to just look at him with as much of a blank stare as I could muster. At that point the big TV he projects onto came to life and that naturally distracted me as it was shiny and I forgot it all. (special thanks to deonn who did an over the phone real time life regression hypnosis therapy on me (oh boy the search engines are going to have a field day with that phrase) to bring back my full sarcastic potential)
In truth the meeting was fine. There was in fact interesting stuff about some new shit. New shit by definition is not a repetition... it's new shit. So he sold himself short and actually put on a worth while meeting. Now you're wondering "is he sucking up?" because my boss' boss reads this before pretty much anybody else. So maybe I'm just writing this paragraph to save my own ass or maybe I'm writing it because I really did get something out of the meeting (I almost said "enjoy" in which case deonn would have to come out to the house for some real time regressive slap in the face reality check therapy... I mean it was a meeting after all... and a status meeting at that.. so let's not get carried away) Or maybe the meeting was good and I'm just writing this because I think it's funny. I would suggest that I thought you thought it was funny, but I just write things here that just amuse me so that really doesn't make sense. This could be part of my original idea for this blog entry in my head it went like this: "so then I'll write a disclaimer that's like back and forth and I'll write about me thinking about writing a disclaimer that goes back and forth like in that weird ass movie adaptation with nick cage" and then I'll actually write it. The problem with that is it's hard to stop. So I ask you...
Was this at all repetitive?
So I'm not a fan of status meetings anyways. So when we start one off with "repetition" I just keep getting the song in my head again.. There are a variety of smart ass remarks that can be said after such an opening line.
"so if this is a repetition of last time, does that mean we can ignore you just the same as the last time?"
"are you really here or have they replaced with a Disney automaton that will just keep repeating the status meeting week in week out?"
"so you're still stuck on that idea of Microsoft taking over Banff?"
"But last time you made Chris cry... Shouldn't we ease up just a little?"
"Well if you're repeating last time, I'll just work on my blog"
I opted to just look at him with as much of a blank stare as I could muster. At that point the big TV he projects onto came to life and that naturally distracted me as it was shiny and I forgot it all. (special thanks to deonn who did an over the phone real time life regression hypnosis therapy on me (oh boy the search engines are going to have a field day with that phrase) to bring back my full sarcastic potential)
In truth the meeting was fine. There was in fact interesting stuff about some new shit. New shit by definition is not a repetition... it's new shit. So he sold himself short and actually put on a worth while meeting. Now you're wondering "is he sucking up?" because my boss' boss reads this before pretty much anybody else. So maybe I'm just writing this paragraph to save my own ass or maybe I'm writing it because I really did get something out of the meeting (I almost said "enjoy" in which case deonn would have to come out to the house for some real time regressive slap in the face reality check therapy... I mean it was a meeting after all... and a status meeting at that.. so let's not get carried away) Or maybe the meeting was good and I'm just writing this because I think it's funny. I would suggest that I thought you thought it was funny, but I just write things here that just amuse me so that really doesn't make sense. This could be part of my original idea for this blog entry in my head it went like this: "so then I'll write a disclaimer that's like back and forth and I'll write about me thinking about writing a disclaimer that goes back and forth like in that weird ass movie adaptation with nick cage" and then I'll actually write it. The problem with that is it's hard to stop. So I ask you...
Was this at all repetitive?
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