Re: Meetings -- ARRGGHHH!!!

Subject: Re: Meetings -- ARRGGHHH!!!
From: voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:50:13 -0500

Apparently they do
http://briansawyer.net/2006/11/07/real-men-knit/
(and the rumor is that men "invented" knitting)
-Wendy

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Downing, David <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>wrote:

> The problem with that is I'm a man, and real men don't knit.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitchell Maltenfort [mailto:mmalten -at- gmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:04 PM
> To: Downing, David
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> Subject: Re: Meetings -- ARRGGHHH!!!
>
> Bring knitting.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Downing, David
> <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> wrote:
> > I just got dragged into a meeting that I was told would last 15
> minutes
> > and went on for 45 because several people got hung up on one specific
> > point, which didn't even concern me. I just read an article in that
> same
> > issue of INTERCOM about effective meetings, but nobody else seems to
> be
> > aware of the principles discussed therein, or is unwilling to enforce
> > them. The problem is, I wasn't in a position to do anything about it
> > because I was an invited guest. What do you all do when you get into
> > situations like that besides just grit your teeth?
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Meetings -- ARRGGHHH!!!: From: Downing, David
Re: Meetings -- ARRGGHHH!!!: From: Mitchell Maltenfort
RE: Meetings -- ARRGGHHH!!!: From: Downing, David

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