Man, these meetings are so painful because my manager is terrible at running meetings. If she'd help guide discussion and then make decisions, they would be so much better. Instead, blather.

Whenever I'm in a meeting and I think of a point or, you know, a good humorous riff, I always have to weigh the value of speaking up to the risk of extending the meeting.

FWIW, if you have the FB app on your phone, it's always listening *and* interrogating nearby devices (like, say, your friends' phones). (I do not have the FB app. Or Messenger.)

I always have to weigh the value of speaking up to the risk of extending the meeting.

Would you like to come to my meetings? You could set a good example. My teammate's theory seems to be "If it's a point worth making, it's worth making eighteen times until we all long for the heat death of the universe."

And she's trying to drag me into another meeting. I am pretending to be away from my computer and ignoring her.

Would you like to come to my meetings? You could set a good example.

I'm just highly motiviated to get out of meetings because, you know, I've got shit to do.

I head that David Schwimmer (of Friends fame) produced s series of videos illustrating sexual harassment so I decided to peek at the first one (don't have time to watch them all right now) and it seems really well done. I mean, holy shit, does it make me feel awkward and uncomfortable just watching it.

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At my previous job I had a coworker who, in spite of having no other external signs of evil, would ask questions at any meeting that showed the slightest possibility of ending early. "Well, since we have time, let me follow up on point X. Do you think that . . . ?" She would also ask questions that had already been answered in meetings that showed no sign of early ending, but it was the situations where we were all, "done and dusted, coffee time" where she really shone.

If a meeting is scheduled for an hour, my boss will fill the hour with words whether we need them or not.

At my previous job I had a coworker who, in spite of having no other external signs of evil, would ask questions at any meeting that showed the slightest possibility of ending early.

I have a co-worker like that. We can always count on her to pipe up with a question and then fail to understand the answer, go off on a tangent, and waste at least ten minutes.

FWIW, if you have the FB app on your phone, it's always listening *and* interrogating nearby devices (like, say, your friends' phones).

Always? Could that be the reason people say something randomly and then see an ad for that thing pop up in FB?

Not all Internet of Things devices are easily hacked if configured correctly. Stuff that you'd want to be secure like locks and cameras are generally capable of encrypted communication and it would take quite a bit of effort to intercept

That is good to know. The only thing I'm really concerned about is having my security camera hacked. No one else needs to be watching my property. Though, I guess, since my name&address are public record, anyone who really wants to find me can do so pretty easily. But still the idea that someone else could be watching through my camera's eye is disturbing.

At my previous job I had a coworker who, in spite of having no other external signs of evil, would ask questions at any meeting that showed the slightest possibility of ending early.

Ugh, I would snap.