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I had a meeting today that was awesome.
Other: There’s nothing to do.
Me: Ok, if there’s nothing to do then that’s fine.
Other: Ok, thanks.
Me: Hope you have a good day.
Other: You too, bye.
This is completely counter to my previous job, where we’d spend two hours talking about nothing and I’d quietly seethe with anger.
They say this, but if I sat for 5 minutes doing nothing (if it’s not my break), they’d be on my ass. I’d prefer the meeting so I can rest my eyes at least while they’re talking.
lol do office job meetings actually tell you that because that’s hilarious
Yeah it happens a lot (well with at least 10 mins more). At my job people are given 40 hours (or more, without overtime) of work to be done, and then call meetings that eat up into those hours, so ending early gives people back the time the meeting took away from them.
Naw. Naw man. Shit naw man I believe you’d get your ass kicked for saying something like that man.
Nope, it’s a real thing. Granted, I mostly see it used when a meeting ends 30-40 minutes early.
It’s a quote from Office Space.
Ahhh, ok. Never seen it, I’m afraid.
Woosh
I hear it at the end of almost every single meeting and it’s typically for less than five minutes. I’ve had people get near the end of a meeting, extend it by half an hour, but only go 15min over, and then still say they’re giving us time back
They are giving negative time back.
Yeah, although I appreciate those minutes because my dailies overlap with the time interval my body decides is time to take a shit
Yes
I’ve been told I’ve been given “the gift of time”
Edit: This is how I read your comment: https://youtu.be/guv5LUT1AFw
I am a dumbass trades guy so I definitely sound like that a lot to office guys lol
Honestly there’s so much dumb shit like that I wish I could say
I hear it daily.
I’d cut my ears off.
Sometimes I get a 1 hour meeting ending in 20 min.
I’m glad to hear it.
Eh, I hear it a lot at my job. But that’s because meetings usually go way longer than they should. So anytime it ends early people are quite pleased.
In my experience it’s usually when the meeting ends like 30 minutes before it’s scheduled to.
Boss does it regularly
Yeah… I do hear it a lot.
hey that’s four more precious minutes to disassociate from the horrors than i was planning so i’ll take it!
Now I don’t have to pee in a bottle under my desk
That phrase should only be used if it’s a significant chunk of time, like half the scheduled meeting length or more.
My management tricks (which came from being managed) included calling for a 90 minute meeting if I needed 45 minutes, and bring snacks.
Oh and when someone finishes an all day job in half a day, let them goof off for the rest of the day.
But then I believed that whole happy workers are maximally productive workers thing that, well, every serious management study reports.
Worst part is it works with and without sarcasm. Get 5 mins into that hobby before you have to get back to the grind.
Or just 5 minutes to close your eyes and clear your mind. When you have back to back meetings most of the day, it’s pretty nice.
I don’t get the point of this tweet honestly
It’s probably only relatable if you have a corporate job.
No no, it’s just that I don’t understand what’s she getting at - is she complaining that it’s bad that the meeting ended 4 minutes earlier than planned and it may as well take the full time? Like yeah, but why would it?
Or is she complaining that it was only 4 minutes and not like 20 (cause she wanted time for hobbies) - but in this case, just leave this job and become a travelling merchant or some shit
I typically hear people say it at my company because we’re all busy as hell and time in meetings is time spent not doing tasks (which are a mix of necessary and not).
We’re “getting back” the time to work, not relax
I think it’s the phrasing that comes off out of touch.
Like expecting that we should be super grateful to the management that they are “giving us back” 4 minutes of “our time” (that we will likely have to spend doing work for the company anyway) even though there is literally nothing else to discuss.
4 minutes may not even be enough time for a bathroom break.
Do people really get upset about this? I hear it every day and have not even considered it would upset anyone
It just like a transaction, but with time. I booked an hour of your time, but used 56 minutes, so you get 4 of them back. Would someone be upset by giving someone 60 cents only to get 4 cents back because the product actually costs 56? No one expects you can buy anything with those 4 cents, but theyre still yours
In my experience it’s usually a “cherry on top” of whatever horrible personality that person has. It’s the difference between somebody who treats you like they own you for 40+ hours a week and somebody who understands that people are hired for what they know and not for their output quantity.
If someone’s a piece of shit, whatever corporate mannerisms they do or don’t pick up are not going to be what makes or breaks the fact they’re a shit person.
I don’t think anyone is seriously upset about it but it is #justcorporatethings.
It’s not just corporate. My last job was basically the antithesis of corporate work and they still said it, but it was usually when it was 15+ minutes.
Why would you plan 0 minutes for a bathroom break? If you planned 5, now you have 9. You can make a coffee. You can check the news, or you favorite socials. You can stare out the window. You can start work on whatever else you planned after the meeting. You can rant on the interwebs about having 4 minutes back.
Who plans bathroom breaks…?
Someone who has back to back meetings scheduled for more than half their work day.
If it’s a zoom I just shit with my headphones on.
She’s complaining about the phrase “giving time back”. It’s a phrase used in corporate settings that is often used for small amounts of time. The meaning isn’t really important, but I find it’s used by individuals as a way of “virtue signaling” that everyone in the meeting are busy with other priorities.
Hopefully it’s a phrase that will pass quickly like many other corporate phrases.
I think they hope it’s satire.
It obviously is, it’s just that a joke needs to make some elementary sense in order to be funny
