Yeah, I need a new office chair. Mine is only a few years old, but it's started sinking now and then, which I really don't appreciate, so clearly I need to put a little more money into a better one, that will hopefully hold up to the use. Is that a vain hope? Who knows.
It actually started doing this at least a month ago, but it seems to be getting worse. I will say that it is mightily unnerving to be sitting, concentrating on work, and feel it sink down an inch, out of the blue.
Meanwhile, speaking of work, it's January, and the company likes to have "kick-off" meetings to start the new year.
So. Many. Meetings.
Last week, we had an hour-long CEO kickoff on Thursday, and a two-hour-long kickoff for the healthcare division (two hours over lunchtime, by the way, and cameras on, people, everyone turn your cameras on).
This week, we have an hour for strategic intelligence kickoff on Thursday, and an hour for people and culture kickoff Friday morning, and then today they sent an invite for a pharma kickoff---another hour, on Friday at 4.
Friday. At four. Before the long weekend.
Seriously, what the hell are they thinking? Even setting aside that absolutely none of this has anything to do with my job, what the hell?
I very much dislike meetings but they were very popular in education as well. I had a chair like that at school--a slow but steady sinker. I had to buy my own because the district wouldn't replace it but it drove me nuts. Luckily, I was never a teacher who sat for long in a chair.
ReplyDeleteMy job is usually not meeting-heavy, just an hour a month, but then there's January.
DeleteAny chance freecycle.org might be a source for a chair? Someone moving away is how I upgraded mine unexpectedly. Best of luck.
ReplyDeleteAs for the meetings, if they have their cameras off can't you? Can you get away with knitting while they talk (and talk and talk).
Oh wow. All those meetings sound ANNOYING. Two hours over lunch? 4 pm on a Friday??? Eek. I'm trying to figure out how you can get out of them because of the sinking chair... like "Oh I'm sorry my chair just broke, I'll be right back..." (or, maybe not.)
ReplyDeleteI might have had to come up with something, but they did in fact switch it! Good thing someone had some sense.
DeleteMeetings are the absolute worst. At least you don't have to physically attend. I used to have to attend so many staff and department meetings after or before a full day of teaching. It was brutal. I'd have to sit in a student desk and listen to a bunch of stuff that could always, always have been accomplished via email. Then there were the district-wide inservice days that were literally ALL DAY. About stuff we knew we'd never implement because we didn't have the funding or the district simply didn't have the will.
ReplyDeleteWhy do the higher-ups do this? Job Justification on their part, I think. Sigh. Your chair gets it.
Oh, I totally think it's job justification! We only started having the "CEO info sessions" after covid started, and I just figured the bigwigs were bored, not being able to travel and schmooze in person, so they had to have someone to talk to to feel important and listened-to.
DeleteMy corporate office loves a late Friday meeting. I don't understand it. As a branch office, I have other stuff to do on Friday, like handing out pay checks while I'm also supposed to be in an HR meeting.
ReplyDeleteWhich you'd think would be more important! But they do love to hear themselves talk.
DeleteLOL. Who schedules a meeting at 4 on a Friday? Attendance is going to be atrocious!
ReplyDeleteThey changed it, or I'm sure it would have been! But honestly, who thought it was a good idea in the first place?
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