1.
How
to go out of this meeting?
The moment you enter the meeting you start
thinking about routes to escape from one. You start searching for reasons to
excuse yourself.
2.
Why
is the clock moving so slow?
Or why is not moving at all?! The time
comes to a standstill. While in a meeting every minute seems like an hour. You
look at the watch, a few people talk for hours; you look at the watch again and
realize those hours lasted only 5 minutes!
3.
Oh
God! Why me?
In every meeting (especially stand-up
meetings) limited work is assigned to every individual. The workflow always
breaks down when it comes to you. You always feel you’re noting down more tasks
than the person next to you.
4.
Chipped
nail-paint and shiny shoes
You have no time to talk to your colleagues
when working but when in a meeting you tend to observe their personal
appearance thoroughly. Now you know that your teammate needs to paint her nails
well and that your boss uses a better show polish than you do.
5.
Whatsapp,
Gmail, Texts, Line, Hike, Twitter etc.etc.…
Suddenly you realize that all the
messengers on your phone require attention. You have this urge to check the
messages received every now and then. Somehow, receiving a message when in a
meeting makes you feel important.
6.
Can I sleep, please?
When in a meeting all you want to do is doze off! It doesn't matter even if the meeting is the most important meeting of your life. All you want to do is sleep! The chair and the conference table are comfortable enough.
7.
He/She
is looking/smiling/talking too much
It’s a meeting and everyone chips in and
then some people chip in too much. Suddenly you notice someone smiling a bit
too much at you or someone else. You wonder if the smile means more work or a
new crush or just that he/she had a nice treat last night!
8.
Blue-sky,
blue sea, green trees…
Sometimes in the middle of the meeting you
find yourself staring at the vastness of the blue sky and the sea. You try to
figure out if the sea shows all the shades of blue or if the sky is dramatic
enough. You become very observant and realize that the factory outlet near you
is polluting the air far more than you thought it would.
9.
Does
he know anything at all?
You never pay attention to the content of a
conversation but easily pick up the grammar and spelling
mistakes that people make. If someone fails to use a feature of Excel or Word
efficiently you wonder if he is even worth sitting in that chair. You have an
urge to tell the person steering the meeting a short cut that he/she can use to
do this mundane task better.
10. What was I thinking again?
And you will never get an answer to this
question.You’ll seldom be able to recall the path your mind traversed before
coming to the final thought that you think about. Generally you even forget the
main motive of a meeting.
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