Meeting Minutes

Working for a giant corporation has it's ups and downs. Going to yearly training is one of the downs.

Here are the notes I took during said training yesterday:

Mind numbing. Boring with a splash of dry information.

Oh my gosh, it's only been 14 minutes.

How does this guy sleep at night knowing this is his career? He's not a bad man. Nor an evil man but hopefully this is either a stepping stone or he realizes this is not truly living.

This is an hour each year that neither he nor I will get back. But we're getting paid for it and it's a stepping stone for me.

Oh my gosh, it's only been 23 minutes.

There are certainly worse tortures. But I really think if this was prison, you'd have less repeat offenders.

My friend fell asleep in here once. The one who got engaged at Longwood Gardens.

The next slide...

He tried to relate to people by using his kids as an example. I feel bad for him. I'm sure he's a great father though. I wonder what instructor told him to use personal stories to relate to the audience.

I just yawned and didn't cover my mouth. My bad. I also wrote that down and spelled "yawned", "yamned". Weird dyslexia type thing.

It's only been 26 minutes.

I know this is going to be tomorrow's blog.

There's a guy in front of me, to the left who's trying to keep his eyes open.

Next few slides...

They used to have a digital clock in here.

Woo-hoo! We're past the half hour mark.

Someone behind me said "wow". I wonder what wowed him.

I'm thankful to have a job. Repeat three times.

Affirmations.

The guy at the podium was just corrected by someone else in the audience. Not cool. He should have waited until after. The guy at the podium has it hard enough.

Thirty nine minutes.

Etiquette.

Emergency exit in a collapsible wall... is that necessary? It's not a real wall.

Lastly... he said "lastly".

"In conclusion"... what happened to the meaning of "lastly"?

I wonder what others in here are thinking about. That could probably be a SNL skit.

Ouch. Apparently someone in the room got in trouble before. New guy at the podium just said so. But he didn't say who. They should have paid attention to this at least once. This is boring info but it's not common sense, necessarily.

A spider chart.

Not common sense. But job specific. Still, once a year is a bit much.

That guy interrupted this guy too. I wonder who he is.

50 minutes down.

Now I'm thinking about the cutest boy ever. But, it's ok this time. He's taking me to dinner or so he says. Next week.

55 minutes.

It's over and we're congratulated on the fact that we don't have to do this for another year.

(Now that you've read that I would like you to notice... it was more interesting for me to think about how boring this training was than to actually pay attention to the material presented during the training. That's boring information, my friends.)