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Morrigu
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^ I hear ya!
Sometimes I think they have a meeting to arrange when they should have a meeting and ah um well no offence but you HR mob seem to have meeting addiction
I avoid as many as possible - only go to clinical ones now - you can't really do that especially whilst being the big cheese - so has acting cured you of any desire to climb further up the tree?? _________________ “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Absolutely. I told the CEO last week I wasn't going to be an applicant. Lots of reasons but one of them is I'm not really interested in doing 12+ hour days every day just to stay afloat.
He called me a piker.
The hardest thing is, 90+ % of the freaking meetings are clinically based or are clinically related (Access is a key) but I have to pay attention in case I get thrown a question.
By the time I got lunch I had an ABI. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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luvdids
Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: work
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think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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yeah that gets me every time too! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
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The meetings go away when you price the time of the participants. $66 for every 6 minutes would serve to ensure that people drag you to a meeting only when they really, really need your attendance.
Try it, - you will probably be extremely pleased with the results. As a hint, the usual rule of thumb is that the hourly rate should be about 6 times the notional hourly cost of your employment (say, hourly salary if you did only the hours laughingly specified in the employment contract, calculated by dividing your annual salary by 46 * your hours per week, to take account of holidays etc, multiplied by 2 to allow for on-costs). The "profit" component in that calculation helps to reflect the opportunity cost of having people sit in a meeting, rather than performing useful, individual tasks.
When you have a moment, you should have a look at the actual cost of all those 4+ person meetings. Chances are that each, properly assessed, costs the enterprise a few thousand dollars. |
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stui magpie
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I've done those sums, mentally and the cost is ridiculous.
I'm in an acting capacity so I'm the lowest paid by an easy $100k pa to the next lowest, so the prospect of me pricing myself out of them is zero. Unfortunately. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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Wow! |
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Pies4shaw
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stui magpie wrote: | ^
I've done those sums, mentally and the cost is ridiculous.
I'm in an acting capacity so I'm the lowest paid by an easy $100k pa to the next lowest, so the prospect of me pricing myself out of them is zero. Unfortunately. |
I have no doubt you would still be cheap (and in demand for everyone's meetings) at twice the price, Stui. |
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stui magpie
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What can i say. people love me.
(see my hypothesis in the other thread about what that means) _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
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stui magpie wrote: | ^
I've done those sums, mentally and the cost is ridiculous.
I'm in an acting capacity so I'm the lowest paid by an easy $100k pa to the next lowest, so the prospect of me pricing myself out of them is zero. Unfortunately. |
Perhaps they're asking you because it's the cheapest way to get the meeting done, pending offshoring to Vietnam. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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stui magpie
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That makes me feel so much better. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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swoop42
Whatcha gonna do when he comes for you?
Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Location: The 18
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When you're down the street, one of your not that old brand name thongs decides to break and you're forced to walk on concrete hotter than the surface of the bloody sun.
Needless to say both my feet are now in a bucket filled with cold water. _________________ He's mad. He's bad. He's MaynHARD! |
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5150
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swoop42 wrote: | When you're down the street, one of your not that old brand name thongs decides to break and you're forced to walk on concrete hotter than the surface of the bloody sun.
Needless to say both my feet are now in a bucket filled with cold water. |
Why both?
When one thong broke, did the other go out on sympathy or did you not want to look like one of the locals that hang around the train station? |
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stui magpie
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variation of old joke.
Swoop was walking down the main street wearing a thong on 1 foot.
5150 spies him and says, hey mate, what's up? You break a thong?
Swoop replies, smiling, nah mate, I found one _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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5150
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stui magpie wrote: | variation of old joke.
Swoop was walking down the main street wearing a thong on 1 foot.
5150 spies him and says, hey mate, what's up? You break a thong?
Swoop replies, smiling, nah mate, I found one |
Maybe that's why both feet were burnt, he found a thong, it broke... |
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