If you're going to put a 9 AM meeting on my calendar on a Friday (and having sent the invite about an hour beforehand), please have the decency to show up on time and not stroll in 17 minutes late.

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Nice... also people that schedule 8:00am meetings at 11:00pm the night before... I stop checking email at 8:00pm

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You should be checking your emails 25 hours per day!!!!!!!!!!!! 1111!!!1!1!1!1!!1!

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My favorite is when they send a meeting time update for 9:15 for when you’ve already been sitting in the room for 13 minutes. Then they walk in like “oh did you not get the update”?

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They scheduled a 9am meeting at 8am and you showed up?

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Wow cool confession

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You’re right, I was really dampening the spirit of a hilarious post here

Infuriating. Did you call them out?

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AD1 Ogilvy 1 : Nope, bc I'm coordinator level and they are C-Suite level...

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I love when meetings start late. Gives me a break to do other things between back-to-backs. It’s like bonus free time.

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