We had a meeting with a big boss. I didn’t have much to say about the subject at hand, and was whispering to the co-worker next to me. The boss saw me and said “could we just have one meeting here?”. Afterwards, everybody kept saying “yeah the meeting wouldn’t have lasted so long if you weren’t holding your own meeting!”

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Published on May 17, 2012 by TravisCoker

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I had a webinar from a company. I was asked to join this meeting. No agenda was provided. They started the presentation with how their product was architected. At the 20 minute mark, I asked them: “What does the product do?” They tried to answer. I said, “well, that’s not what I need. I need X. I thought you guys did X.” Salesguy: “well, we do, but my group doesn’t.” Click.