Meeting BoyThe account director is never interested in doing postmortems: “We shouldn’t be looking backwards.” Except when she has someone to blame.
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Do prostitutes also complain that they “had to bend over backwards for that client”?
Or is that just something annoying account guys say?
Groundhog Day, Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day. Don’t get me wrong— all nice days I’m sure, but why don’t I get any of them off?
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Groundhog Day was amusing when I was younger, but now my work life is so repetitive— same meetings, same idiots— that it’s just sad.
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Your vendor keeps changing things and you don’t hold them accountable, but sure, it’s fair that you yell at us that it’s not done.
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No, I will not “agree to disagree”— you were just wrong. There’s still such a thing as FACTS.
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SPOILER ALERT: In Before Watchmen Rorschach leaves the group because Ozymandias keeps holding daily status meetings.
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In honor of Don Cornelius passing, I proposed we cancel morning status and do a Soul Train line.
I always have an idea for canceling status.
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Ever notice that history never recounts something great that happened in a status meeting? There’s a reason for that.
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It’s noon and I have my coat on. I am not “joining your status meeting for a few minutes”. It’s never a few minutes.
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