Fake Meetings for People with Too Many Real Meetings
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Fake Meetings for People with Too Many Real Meetings
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#2Baha — amazing! Love the idea of calendar decoys.
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#3Genius. Debating whether to go with it or not. Awesome idea!
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#4Genius. Debating whether to go with it or not. Awesome idea!
thanks! if you do try it out, we make it easy to get rid of the cal events if you like – so, we hope, you won't be stuck with more decoys than you wanted.
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#5This is one of those things I just assumed everybody did. I've been doing it for years, and can't imagine keeping my sanity if I didn't.
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#6Bwahaha cynical me really likes that.
It's sad that adding a calendar item of "Working - do not disturb" is not considered an option but cramming bullshit into your calendar is.
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#7I picked up the habit of doing this manually a couple years ago, when my meeting load mushroomed following a reorg.
I also started getting assertive about declining meetings if I thought they were asking for too much time. Too many folks were in the habit of reflexively blocking out a full hour for a decision that could be made in 15 minutes plus a briefing email that everyone could be expected to read ahead of time. I was surprised to find that that one didn't really burn any social capital. Far from being offended, many of my colleagues thought it was a good idea and started following suit.
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#8I do this all the time manually, but it's not hard or time-consuming. Why would I want this service trying to do it? It takes me maybe 5 minutes to block out the portions of my week that I don't want people to schedule over.
(Of course, they still schedule over it. But they also schedule over real meetings, so I don't think there's some magical way to name a meeting that makes it seem important enough that the meeting locusts won't try and eat more hours than you have in a day.)
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#9I picked up the habit of doing this manually a couple years ago, when my meeting load mushroomed following a reorg. I also started getting assertive about declining meetings if I thought they were asking for too much time. Too many folks were in the habit of reflexively blocking out a full hour for a decision that could be made in 15 minutes plus a briefing email that everyone could be expected to read ahead of time.…
+10 to event you said bit I have a couple more tips.
1) If it's not clear what the meeting is for and there's no agenda - just decline it.
2) If there are too many people invited - say no. So often there's really only about 1.5 people on the room who you really need.
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#10How toxic is the work place that you can't block out time for Actually Working on your calendar?