Exciting Morning Meetings

[mbarrick]

Work is a thrill a minute. I have an adage that the usefulness of a meeting is inversely proportional to the elaborateness of the doodles produced during the meeting.

This is from an hour-long meeting this morning. The text is the original Latin of Occam's Razor (Literally it says "Entities are not to be multiplied beyond their practical necessity". This can be interpreted as "The simplest solution is the best solution" or, more bluntly, "Keep it simple, stupid"). This is made funnier by its context on page 2 of 5 of a stupidly complicated Gantt chart printed on 11x17 paper that changes almost daily and has little to no bearing on what is actually going on.

Comments

The Devil Makes Work For Idle Hands To Do...

[valerian.livejournal.com]

What's even funnier is that you had the time to carefully scan it, crop, it, resize it, and post it. They sure are using you to your full potential, aren't they???

LOL

Re: The Devil Makes Work For Idle Hands To Do...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Yup. It is a thrill a minute here.

[tnkgrl.livejournal.com]

In the meantime... I'm having to stop myself from going on a geek killing spree! It's hard enough having to work with them all day - the city's crawling with them :)

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Nerf guns. Lots and lots of nerf guns.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

They can be useful when they aren't bloated to make things more complicated than they really are. This particular one, however, could be replaced with a to-do list with about 6 line items on it.