Do those meetings have agendas, Toddson? (If not, for goodness sake, whyyyyy???)

Also, has your boss given specific feedback? Like your notes have too much or not enough detail? Really there are just 2 things that need to come out of meeting notes-- decisions made or communicated and action items.

Seemingly, too much detail. There tend to be long, involved discussions on the issues - and, yes, there IS an agenda for each.

Ok yeah I was about to ask what’s wrong with them. If you’re giving too much detail (more transcription than summary) is it because you fear you’ll miss key points otherwise? Is it an issue of understanding what/why they’re discussing something, that you need more background on?

Laura, where would you move TO, if you sell your house?

The calls bore me senseless. I don't really understand what they're doing or why they're doing it, so a lot of it is outside my knowledge. Also, as stated, they are phenomenally boring (as are so many things when you don't understand the purpose ... even with an agenda).

Meanwhile, I have to scoot home early because - ta da! - they're shutting off the water fairly early in the evening. I want to have a couple pitchers of water available for basic uses. They SAY it'll be for four hours ... but I'm doubtful.

In other - more entertaining - information, I came across this quote:

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years unless you give them your email address.

I'd ask for a brief recap on each agenda item before moving on to the next one to make sure I got the gist of it and what any actions need to be taken related to that item. Also review the agenda with your boss prior to the meeting to better understand what you should be listening for.

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years unless you give them your email address.

Alternatively, they will call you everyday for tech support and questions on internet slang.

Teach them how to use Netflix instead.

Laura, where would you move TO, if you sell your house?

Most likely south to Pompano Beach where we rented for a while and really enjoyed it. Closer to Brendon's mother and siblings, but further away from Bobby & family. They would (in theory) like us to move north closer to them, but I'm not leaning that way. Too far away from the rest of the family and my customers, and real cities. Also possible if we don't see anything right away is living on a boat in a marina for a while.

Toddson, I had this feedback, because in theatre, we were summarizing the discussions.

Here, they just want the information of the decision and the action item. Not even, a discussion was had on X subject. I have to stop and ask "For the minutes, can I clarify that the decision is X and the action items are Y".