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Everyone has the right to block their calendar for various reasons, business or not, including yourself - for business meeting, concentration time, doctor appointments, or kids going back to school events etc. If you really need to meet with your partner or MD, just email/message them and ask if they have any flexibility with their calendar.
I did yesterday & was offered her next 20 minute availability, which was 3 weeks from now. Silly partners.
Could it be that they don’t want you booking that time if they are blocking it on their calendar?
It’s not that bad when it’s one partner. It’s hard when there’s 3-4 partners
Sorry, it’s hard to say how long clients want to stay out after a round of golf…
Its you thinking partners manage their own calendars lol. If you really want to get time, work through their EA.
Unfortunately that’s truth and Missing the qualified people I guess
Availability is not during hold time?
Not a PPMD, but I had 6 hours of calls yesterday from 8 am - 4 pm. The reason I blocked the rest of the holes was so I could read and respond to all the emails, pings, and carrier pigeons that came in during those calls. I get it’s annoying to see a whole day blocked, but sometimes those blocks are the only way to get stuff done
That’s the point of the “holding” 😂 so you don’t book that time
Wait until you have a million meetings a day I think you’ll understand
That’s true for me as a senior manager frequently. My pet peeve is a PPMD knowing that their calendar is fully booked but asking me to create an opening out of thin air instead of telling me if they have any pockets of availability. It also happens most often when I’m trying to get multiple PPMDs together.
What a dumb take
Typical partner behavior. You would think they’re on calls 20 hours of the day. Tentatives and BS all over the place.
Instead of worrying what others are doing in their calendar, manage your own. We all have lots of requests and things that need to get done.
You need to work through their admin.
Completely agree. This is usually preceded by that partner asking me to put time on their calendar on a specific day and then I check in outlook and that entire day is blocked off. I’ve met with partners at 11pm before because their calendar was so bad and it was an urgent matter.
The idea that anyone should assume that anyone else is going to "always be available" for them for anything at any time is rather offensive. If there were no open spaces, that would be one thing, but it is not for you to judge how many is 'too many'. Many people have a lot of meetings, and those increase the higher you rise up the chain. Also - believe it or not - people have a right to reserve time for personal reasons as well.
I do this on purpose so people actually message or email me to ask about my availability before booking a meeting. Thats polite and respectful. Still get double booked. Also, so many times I answer the questions they want to meet about via teams.
I get it if Partners or Directors need to shell out time to just sit down and get stuff done vs getting calendar holds all up the wazoo...Meanwhile an SC that joined my project would essentially have one continuous block of time booked out for anywhere between 5-8 hours every single day for who knows what reason. Not a great look when you're leading direct client work and neither your team nor the client knows when you can meet for immediate concerns. Needless to say she was removed from the project a few months later and removed from the firm shortly after that.
Also how do you know they are holds? Can you read the description, are they tentative, etc?
Anyone who’s calendar is that booked has an EA. Talk to them.
"put time on my calendar on this urgent matter"...
Everyone has to get work done. If someone really needs to get to someone, just ask….