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Ghost ship meetings

2024/10/21

Tags: worst parts software engineering

You are a software engineer in a big company and you are heading home in the afternoon. You've still got a meeting or two to do, but since everything is via Teams, you may as well do them from home while lying on the bed or something.

So, you open up your Teams in order to join the meeting that you have been asked to prioritize over everything else only to find that it has disappeared. You open your email and find that the meeting was moved forward by a day. Okay, sometimes schedules don't work out and meetings need to move, so you log off and pack up your stuff.

Next day, as you are about to join the meeting, it has disappeared again and has been moved by another 2 days. Something about schedules and a repeat of"please prioritize this". So, you try to join the meeting after 2 days and once again the priority meeting is moved.

I beg you, please, just put the damn meeting at some point in time and then actually have it. I want out of this ghost ship meeting purgatory where the meetings disappear just as I am about to join them. And if you aren't going to have the meeting, please let me have the damn empty calendar slots. Please.

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