Random Rants 0x52: [Obligatory rant about title]

[Arakhor]

Night of the Werewolves. It's a Mafia game.

 

[RRRaskolnikov]

^^ You beat me to it

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Hi. I don't think I saw you in OT before.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Night of the Werewolves. It's a Mafia game.

Oh, one of those dark web places I'm not allowed to go.

 

[The_J]

I am wondering: did you feel usefull in more than half of them? (I used to spend 6 to 8 hours in meeting a day, receiving like 50 mails a day, etc... to the point that it all felt nonsense to me The only time I was actually "producing" stuff was when I isolated myself in front of a salad at lunch time... salad being eaten infront of my laptop ofc )

That all depends on how the meeting is structured.
I spend like...depending on week, 6-12 hours in meetings (I think), and in some of them stuff is getting done, some are just informative, and some are purely useless. The ones I lead are obviously the more useful ones ^^.

 

[Synobun]

...yes. I missed the "o."

I've got a healthy surplus for you. I just got home to a notepad file with 33k Os. I think something is triggering my O circuit from underneath it.

Canned air, canned air, canned air...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooount!

 

[RRRaskolnikov]

Hi. I don't think I saw you in OT before.

Hi there, I've been more active like a decade or so , I was more involved in civ4 forum and NOTW... but it feels good to get back around here now and then...

That all depends on how the meeting is structured.
I spend like...depending on week, 6-12 hours in meetings (I think), and in some of them stuff is getting done, some are just informative, and some are purely useless. The ones I lead are obviously the more useful ones ^^.

Obviously
You are totally correct about meeting structure (a good one has an order, a leader, minutes produced, actions being taken, and only the needed folks present, etc...) but it's alarming the number of meetings that ends up in a total waste of time (in my experience... you may - hopefully - have been in a better place)

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, one of those dark web places I'm not allowed to go.

You can just check my signature or Snerk's. We'll distract the wife by pretending to be Mormons.

 

[Birdjaguar]

You can just check my signature or Snerk's. We'll distract the wife by pretending to be Mormons.

And you both would leave the encounter speaking in a higher register.

 

[Synobun]

This will sound like a humble brag but I absolutely despise doing good things and being acknowledged for them. I'm so comfortable with and insistent on hating myself, all the while maintaining the idea (no matter how warped) that this is logically consistent and empirical. That I can objectively prove I lack value, that I'm unreliable, and that I shouldn't be turned to. So whenever I do something Good™ I inevitably get pissed at myself for daring to do such a thing. But that's stupid. I should like doing good things. And indeed I strive to do good things. But then when I do those things, I just wield it as another means of despising myself.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Rant: I have both the raves and rants thread. This probably isn't fair.

Wait'll you get the Raves, the Rants, and the Random Thoughts.

It's actually rather nice.

 

[Birdjaguar]

This will sound like a humble brag but I absolutely despise doing good things and being acknowledged for them. I'm so comfortable with and insistent on hating myself, all the while maintaining the idea (no matter how warped) that this is logically consistent and empirical. That I can objectively prove I lack value, that I'm unreliable, and that I shouldn't be turned to. So whenever I do something Good™ I inevitably get pissed at myself for daring to do such a thing. But that's stupid. I should like doing good things. And indeed I strive to do good things. But then when I do those things, I just wield it as another means of despising myself.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The fertile topsoil of San Bernardino stains my feet black every freakin' day that I work over there.

 

[choxorn]

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/random-rants-ΠΑ-thats-a-paddlin.650795/page-50#post-15587311

Brother, you speak for me.

With only one of those statements or all of them?

 

[MaryKB]

The fertile topsoil of San Bernardino stains my feet black every freakin' day that I work over there.

Stop working barefoot??

 

[Synobun]

Stop working barefoot??

Mary, are you telling someone to wear socks?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Stop working barefoot??

I wish. It's great soil, but bone dry pretty much so just dust. It works in through my shoes and goes right through my socks.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

That's why you don't wear sandals with socks.

 

[MaryKB]

I'm so sorry, I just can't even fathom having to work outside

@Synsensa never! But I thought he coyld wear boots!