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[MaryKB]

Every other Wednesday I run a meeting at work, where we present incoming fraud trends and looking for deviations as part of strategy building.

Anyway, my boss' boss has asked me to start taking and distributing minutes for this meeting starting today. Ugh I'm a Vice President, not his secretary. How am I supposed to run this and take minutes at the same time??

 

[rah]

Very carefully

 

[H4run]

Every other Wednesday I run a meeting at work, where we present incoming fraud trends and looking for deviations as part of strategy building.

Anyway, my boss' boss has asked me to start taking and distributing minutes for this meeting starting today. Ugh I'm a Vice President, not his secretary. How am I supposed to run this and take minutes at the same time??

I suffered this a lot back then, despite being a manager my direct boss always assigned me to do clerical stuff. My objection not ending up well, it leads to cold war that both of us somewhat equally damaged, especially me. So now I try to make her my friend so I can make an objection without resulting a confrontation. I take a step back to move 2 step forward. If you can delegates it to your officer or staff it is better, if not try to become persuasive, if thats also not working, well, just forget the little overlap count it as a kind of invesment or favour.

 

[Glassfan]

Anyway, my boss' boss has asked me to start taking and distributing minutes for this meeting starting today. Ugh I'm a Vice President, not his secretary. How am I supposed to run this and take minutes at the same time??

As a VP you must have a secretary or PA who could....

 

[rah]

There is also the possibility that you were given the task because he trusts you to do it?
Sometimes this is a GOOD thing. Attitude.

 

[Synobun]

He's telling you to fetch his coffee because he likes you, and trusts you not to commit a murder. Isn't the corporate machine benevolent?

 

[Lexicus]

I just saw a bizarre ad on Youtube for MAGA attire. The bizarre part was the musical accompaniment was some sort of acoustic/electronic "millennial pop" thing that just jarred with the MAGA cap, and made me wonder who the heck the ad was supposed to be targeted at.

I don't understand how these ad-serving algorithms seem to pick thoughts out of my head sometimes, but can't seem to figure out that serving me with ads for Trump merchandise is a waste of time?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Every other Wednesday I run a meeting at work, where we present incoming fraud trends and looking for deviations as part of strategy building.

Anyway, my boss' boss has asked me to start taking and distributing minutes for this meeting starting today. Ugh I'm a Vice President, not his secretary. How am I supposed to run this and take minutes at the same time??

I did that for the Star Trek club I ran, but that's because I was also the person who produced the monthly newsletter and didn't want to have to decipher anyone else's handwriting.

Delegate. You must have at least that much authority, and if your boss's boss objects, just say that you wanted to make sure you didn't miss anything on the agenda or noticing when someone wanted to contribute to the discussion.

I just saw a bizarre ad on Youtube for MAGA attire. The bizarre part was the musical accompaniment was some sort of acoustic/electronic "millennial pop" thing that just jarred with the MAGA cap, and made me wonder who the heck the ad was supposed to be targeted at.

I don't understand how these ad-serving algorithms seem to pick thoughts out of my head sometimes, but can't seem to figure out that serving me with ads for Trump merchandise is a waste of time?

I don't understand people who don't block the ads there. YT would drive me crazy if I had to put up with ads.

 

[Lexicus]

Sometimes ads fascinate me, I think they're of immense anthropological value in general.

 

[Cutlass]

Every other Wednesday I run a meeting at work, where we present incoming fraud trends and looking for deviations as part of strategy building.

Anyway, my boss' boss has asked me to start taking and distributing minutes for this meeting starting today. Ugh I'm a Vice President, not his secretary. How am I supposed to run this and take minutes at the same time??

Use your VP authority to bring someone into the room to do the actual work, and then take credit for it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I accidentally clogged up the toilet.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

This is when it would be handy to be able to morph into a cat.

I think morphing into a human that didn't need to go to the toilet would be just as handy, probably nicer, and require significantly less... morphing power.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My cat tried to jump up on top of the radio and knocked it down. Thankfully it's not broken and she didn't get hurt.

 

[Synobun]

UPS didn't bother trying to deliver my package but lied and said they did. They left it at a (closed) post office over half an hour away by transit instead of a (very open) post office 15 minutes away on foot.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

UPS didn't bother trying to deliver my package but lied and said they did. They left it at a (closed) post office over half an hour away by transit instead of a (very open) post office 15 minutes away on foot.

In which case, call them and demand proper delivery to your home.

They tried this with me several years ago. I told them I am disabled, don't drive, have no one to drive me, and in any case I had been home when their driver just decided to leave a note instead of making proper delivery. There had been no attempt to buzz my suite, knock on my door, or phone me.

 

[Synobun]

There was no note. I was physically outside at the door at the time they said they tried to deliver. No truck, no driver, no note, no attempt, nada. But hey, they did me a solid and left it somewhere far away!

On the point of demanding proper delivery, or a "second attempt", success ratio is 0% on that. The answer is universally "Nah."

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: One of the neighbours is smoking marijuana and the smell is coming in and now I feel bad. I don't know who it is to ask them to open a window.

 

[cardgame]

In which case, call them and demand proper delivery to your home.

They tried this with me several years ago. I told them I am disabled, don't drive, have no one to drive me, and in any case I had been home when their driver just decided to leave a note instead of making proper delivery. There had been no attempt to buzz my suite, knock on my door, or phone me.

FedEx has absolute top notch service, at least for me/my area. I missed a delivery by ~5 hours because I was at work, called the number thoughtfully posted on my door and the driver swung back around and delivered in like 5 minutes (she was still in the area)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

There was no note. I was physically outside at the door at the time they said they tried to deliver. No truck, no driver, no note, no attempt, nada. But hey, they did me a solid and left it somewhere far away!

On the point of demanding proper delivery, or a "second attempt", success ratio is 0% on that. The answer is universally "Nah."

Okay, so they made absolutely no attempt at delivery, and you got an automated phone call?

That's what really annoyed me with my order. It was six identical shelves from Jysk, and after the 4th one, I called the UPS place and told them I was home when this supposed "delivery attempt" happened, nobody had contacted me other than these really annoying phone calls and I had better NOT get the other two calls, and I had no way to pick this stuff up, and they HAD to deliver it.

So the woman on the other end yapped that "well, you have to be home at the time we come" and I told her, "I just told you I'm disabled. I have nowhere else to be during the day but home. I am ALWAYS home."

We arranged to have delivery the next day, and I informed them when they buzzed my suite that I do not live in the lobby and they could bring my shelves to my door, like I'd paid for. They didn't like that, but they did it.

In your case, there must be a way to make a complaint on their website, even if the idiot at the office won't help you.

 

[Hygro]

Every other Wednesday I run a meeting at work, where we present incoming fraud trends and looking for deviations as part of strategy building.

Anyway, my boss' boss has asked me to start taking and distributing minutes for this meeting starting today. Ugh I'm a Vice President, not his secretary. How am I supposed to run this and take minutes at the same time??

Listen to Cardi B on repeat until he starts writing down your minutes.