Why is this monthly meeting now DAILY? That's insane.

It reeks of a manager with too much time on their hands trying to look like they're doing something.

Yup.

Took an hour break, lay down for a bit and had dinner, and then worked another 90 minutes-ish. Tired. And tomorrow starts at 6am. Every week starts this way - last week seemed like it was gettng better but then TJMaxx (and all their subsidiaries) started ordering again and they are always a lot of work and ask for stuff on Mondays like everyone else. Sigh.

Oh, hey, speaking of one-on-one meetings I have mine with the I guess new Director of Operations who had been my boss's boss, and maybe still is I'm not sure how the org chart has changed but he's definitely over more teams than just ours now. Not sure what to expect from that - his email said it's for getting to know each otehr but we know each other pretty well already?

I agree with DX. My supervisory structure did something similar.

Our monthly team meeting has become a weekly conference call and we kinda need that right now just so we all know the same stuff, but daily seems excessive. Daily anything seems excessive to me, honestly.

I find the daily facetime with both sets of grandparents exhausting. Daily distance work meetings sounds like hell.

A family friend just posted a picture on FB of her teenager having a "prom" in the backyard with a dozen teenagers. No masks, no distancing. I just can't with people.

Taking my car to a new garage this morning, and I was getting apprehensive about getting to/from work... got up in the night because I couldn't sleep, so I went onto Google Maps and discovered that it's significantly closer to work than it is back to my house. But because I had it mentally tagged as "further from home" (which it is mostly because of highways and one-way streets) it follows that it must be more difficult to get to work from there.

Brains is weird.

Flea, could you play Sudoku or do a crossword while the meeting goes on? Or take up knitting...

Daily anything seems excessive to me, honestly.

100%

Oh, knitting! When my sister's kids were in Montessori, everyone was knitting. The kids because it was part of the curriculum and the adults probably also because it was part of the curriculum but also because it was a good way to be able to keep an eye on the kids but not just be watching them or be involved with whatever they were doing. Something like that might be very good for during meetings of the enraging sort.

We started out with daily meetings, and now most of them are two or three times a week. It made sense when we we first working from home, because everything was about COvid resonse and setting people up to tech their classes online in a two week period. I actually requested a one on one with my new supervisor, so we cancelled one of our group meetings to do that. Our group is just us and the Admin, but for some reason neither of us are the admn's direct supervisor (we have a person whose job it is to control the budgets and supervise the admins). I am one of the rare staff members that doesn't report to her, but I think it is because we are pay grade peers. so I report to the faculty member who is the director of both departments I work in. I am a mess to put on the org chart.

But I came here to make a petty complaint. Yesterday we were told that we are to have a uniform email signature across the company. I followed the directions to copy and paste the template into my Gmail settings and know I have this weird looking .sig where the font is suddenly bigger than the body of the email. And I have to remember to type out "Thanks," instead of having it automatically appear. Boo.