Sometimes things happen that I really don’t understand.

A few of us have a status meeting with a vendor every day at 10:30am for a project we’re working on.  This is at 10:30am M-F and has been going on for months.  Yet nearly every day, one of the people in the meeting ask me what time the meeting is.  Are you freaking serious?   It’s at 10:30!  It was at 10:30 yesterday and it will be today and it will be tomorrow, so stop asking me and pay attention!  People also have it on their calendars, so they should consider looking!  Gah!

There is another meeting that we have every day where when it is your turn, you are supposed to talk about 3 things in order.  Items 1, 2, and 3.  This meeting has also been going on for months, yet people every day still do it wrong.  You are supposed to address 1 & 2, then the next person goes, then the next, and so on and so forth.  Then, when it gets back to you again, you address 3 and it goes around the room, then we are done.  But EVERY DAY, people either go out of order, which throws people off, or miss items, or go off topic.  So then, you have half the room saying things a certain way, and the other half saying something else, then when it gets back to the original people, they don’t know what to say because they already said it or it is already past.  GAH!  C’mon, it’s really not that hard.  Really.

But sure enough, it happens EVERY DAY.

On a good note, yesterday, someone told me, “I feel like you’re the only person that makes sense around here.”