The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

[Alan]

Because what’s a CD?

[Raid]

Yeah, could be worse, they could have called it Product Code formerly CDKeys.

[Alan]

I kind of like that actually….

[Animalmother]

Back to phone moaning. My Samsung did a software update last night which resulted in it locking my SIM and making the phone unusable. It's only in moments like these you realise how much you utterly depend on the phone, you're basically fucked without it. I was lucky to find the original SIM booklet and unlock it. Looking online apparently its a known issue with updating to UI 7.

[Wrathbone]

We have a regular Wednesday meeting at work that has no clear agenda (I may have previously ranted about it here), and it typically has no relevance to me or several others. About a month ago, our manager very clearly stated that his view on the meeting is that we should only attend it if we feel it will be useful to us, and so with no small amount of glee I stopped attending.

This morning I got a message from him asking why I wasn't at yesterday's meeting. I pointed out the above, and also that at the daily meeting half an hour before that meeting we'd all discussed the agenda, which had absolutely no relevance to anything I was doing. Apparently that's not going to cut it, and he now thinks it would be better if I attended the start of the meeting to make absolutely sure it won't be useful to me before I leave and get on with actual fucking work.

I might suggest we have a separate post-standup / pre-agendaless-Wednesday meeting agenda-confirmation meeting, followed by a post-meeting review meeting, just to make sure we've got all bases covered.

[eny]

Back when I was working, I only had to worry about completing 150m+ of fence a day and listening to a young robin learning to sing...

[Wrathbone]

We're going to end up with a group of AIs perpetually stuck in a meeting because none of them know what it's for or when it should end.

[Raid]

We're going to end up with a group of AIs perpetually stuck in a meeting because none of them know what it's for or when it should end.

10 Print "Thankyou all for attending."
20 Print "Let's circle back to that at the end and move on."
30 Goto 10