I've had to move the same 12-person meeting twice already this week. My exec seems to think I can snap my fingers and everyone else will magically be free. How do you deal with an exec who doesn't get how hard it is to coordinate a huge group? It’s so frustrating.

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This is me on a daily basis and I sometimes want to rip my hair out, it’s especially frustrating when I scheduled the meeting 3 weeks ago, no conflicts or anything and now magically 6 people can’t make it anymore.

I didn’t have 12 but I had 8 and a few were out on the field. I always had a backup time/date; they didn’t care for it until we used, twice.

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