Dear WPs, I have been tasked with holding a daily huddle meeting. Every division has to do it. I totally see the value, but am struggling with what to discuss. I have a division of 4 people and we all sit in one tiny cube block. We talk all day long about stuff. It's supposed to be a positive, pump it up, review big goals for the day, type meeting that only lasts 5 minutes. I don't want it to be a check the box meeting. I want it to be meaningful. Any ideas on how to keep it going and useful? Does anyone else do these? Signed, Stumped
Dear WPs, I have been tasked with holding a daily huddle meeting. Every division has to do it. I totally see the value, but am struggling with what to discuss. I have a division of 4 people and we all sit in one tiny cube block. We talk all day long about stuff. It's supposed to be a positive, pump it up, review big goals for the day, type meeting that only lasts 5 minutes. I don't want it to be a check the box meeting. I want it to be meaningful. Any ideas on how to keep it going and useful? Does anyone else do these? Signed, Stumped
I don't personally do them, but a few of our departments do. My only advice is to keep them 5 minutes, and stay on topic - maybe hit a couple of bullet points, point out any big deadlines, maybe recognize any good works and go. Some of ours have evolved into 30 minute chat sessions about non work items.
Don't answer a request from DS by saying, "your mom will never go for it" and sending him to me. You just don't want to be the one to say no. You just want me to be the bad guy and say the actual word "NO". Do your own dirty work.
Signed. Don't always want to be bad cop.
PS. DH and DS - do not ask me anything in the morning while I am trying to get out the door that could have been asked the night before.
Dear WPs, I have been tasked with holding a daily huddle meeting. Every division has to do it. I totally see the value, but am struggling with what to discuss. I have a division of 4 people and we all sit in one tiny cube block. We talk all day long about stuff. It's supposed to be a positive, pump it up, review big goals for the day, type meeting that only lasts 5 minutes. I don't want it to be a check the box meeting. I want it to be meaningful. Any ideas on how to keep it going and useful? Does anyone else do these? Signed, Stumped
I don't personally do them, but a few of our departments do. My only advice is to keep them 5 minutes, and stay on topic - maybe hit a couple of bullet points, point out any big deadlines, maybe recognize any good works and go. Some of ours have evolved into 30 minute chat sessions about non work items.
My company just started these this week. We list the wins from last week and the focus for the current week.
I sincerely hope you tell your grandmother what I said this morning: that I’m very worried our vacation will be ruined because you and your brother are defiant when your grandmother is around. Because it’s true.
Sincerely, Fed Up Mom
Dear Hubs and MIL:
We are going to have a very serious talk about expectations for this trip. Like if one of the kids doesn’t want to go somewhere, Grandma isn’t going to offer to let them stay back with you. And Grandma isn’t ever taking either kid near water alone because to be blunt I don’t trust your judgment.
Sincerely, Fed Up Mom
Dear Swim Company:
Get your shit together and match me with a swim teacher. I’ve given you 2 days. I’m contacting other companies now.
Sincerely, Annoyed Person Willing to Give You A Crapton of Money
Dear DD, Enjoy today - mommy doesn’t do this whole play hooky thing ever. Ever!! So we will go to lunch and you can watch hours of TV. No state testing to miss today, no real curriculum happening this “late in the year” so letting you laze off that big dose of Benadryl you had to take last night seemed ideal. I love mommy daughter dates!
Dear DD Do not let go of the bar!! She let go practicing her back-hip-circle last night at home. It looked like the college girls release move but she went crashing to the floor. I was able to knock/save her from landing fully on her head and instead she landed on her shoulder/back of her head. Startled cry then ice pack and she got back on an hour or so later and with lots of spotting did the skill 3 times. I was afraid she would be scared if she didn't get back on the horse. Woke up this morning with a stiff neck so she now she the chiro at 3:20. Mom who loves she is practicing but oh my!
Dear Property Management co I just called you. Foot sticking out of garbage area again. Guy living in car in the parking lot and food/trash every where. When you asked me to go check to see if either where still there I told you no. Female alone no one else in yet. Not investigating homeless! Do something Cranky tenant.
twinmomma, I used to try to do these. Sometimes I'd ask someone else to talk about a project. Sometimes I'd use it to pass along some fire drill that had been passed down from upon high (and there were a ton of these). Sometimes I'd just use it to ask if anyone was stuck on something and wanted to float it to the group to see if anyone had any ideas about how to accomplish it. Mae
Dear WP - I just sent a solid final draft of a website that I built from scratch. It's my first paying consulting gig for my own little business. My first official job since I quit my corporate job. I believe I will have broken even on the set-up costs (LLC formation and wordpress site/url) after this job. I'm so proud of my work, even though my former colleagues would laugh at it. It's mine, and I love it. :-) Mae
I know I said I wanted you to sell our loan. But I wanted you to sell it to a REAL bank, not another crappy mortgage company on par with you. So if you could convince them to send me the actual information on where to send my next mortgage payment, and convince them to let me use their website, that would be swell.
Signed, Still happy with my rate that we wouldn't have gotten at a big bank but OMG this is annoying.
Post by erinshelley21 on May 16, 2018 11:06:08 GMT -5
Dear Camper, WTF. Cracked vent cover, leaky water connection and then you just up and decide to stop pulling power from the box? I don't pay $230/ month to sleep in uncomfortable conditions or lose days worth of food, so your shenanigans had us fleeing the campground at 10pm like refugees. Get your shit together. Signed, not afraid to trade you in.
Dear DH, You are a champ driving 3.5 hours home that late. Sorry I fell asleep 40 minutes from home. Love, I am not a champ.
erinshelley21, That sucks! I swear you take it out and come home to 2 or 3 things that need to be fixed. Campers suck money even after you have it paid off. Not a fan of my camper let alone camping
2chatter, Enjoy your free day. No work, no stress, and lots of relaxing 186momx
Post by covergirl82 on May 16, 2018 12:10:10 GMT -5
Dear H,
I'm going to be gone 3.5 days for a work conference. I hope you don't plan on me making sure everything is stocked up and ready to go for when I'm gone. Because you never do that for me when you leave for a few days for a work (or even fun) trip. And keep in mind that if you don't make the kids' lunches like I usually do (and yes, it takes a while to cut up fruit), then it's our kids take the loss on that.
Love,
Wife/mommy who hopes to come home to a little more appreciation
Congrats on putting in your two-week notice. You're funny.. "I don't want to tell everyone just yet because I might not actually be leaving." I'll be surprised if anyone is supportive of aggressive tactics to make you stay.
Signed, Just the analyst you hired doesn't follow.
Post by traveltheworld on May 16, 2018 12:54:01 GMT -5
Dear DS,
When is sent you the pictures of the big cranes and me in full safety gear, I didn't expect your response to be "oh mommy you look so beautiful!". You are the best! Now if you could just stop it with the weird hand motions.
Signed, WM who is ready to go home
Dear DH,
Good job in keeping the house and kids together while I'm gone. Although - why was DS wearing fleece pants in the picture this morning when it's 80 degrees out?
186momx - oh I wish! I have been working since 6:30 (DH handled DS this morning) but I let DD stay home, then actually went out to lunch instead of eating at my desk.
Dear Neighbors, Why do you spray your kids with the hose every morning and every evening - often while they cry or scream unhappily or whine - in the three foot space between your house and my fence? It is so loud it’s like they are in my office and a colleague asked if I had sick kids at home. Seriously what the eff??? You need to stop. It’s a weird place on the side of your garage and it’s not weird that I think you could do this anywhere else in your yard where it won’t echo into my Office. Seriously, you guys are weird and trashy, but this is a new level of special. Disgusted neighbor
Dear world, Marketing is not the glamorous world you all think it is. I promise. Try ordering promo material. It's not fun. signed, Currently dealing with a stress ball fiasco
Dear kids, I had the afternoon sort of off, so I thought I would get ready for tomorrow’s Cub Scout event. Except I can’t find the stupid Cub Scout shirt anywhere. And the playroom is messy, DS’s room is messy and so is the office/ attic. I am so tempted to pick you up early and make you clean the entire house. But you had a field trip today so I don’t want to totally kill your mood. Plus DH might have phone calls. But seriously I make sure that shirt is hung up in the same place after every event and the one time I don’t know one knows where the hell it is even though DH took DS last...If you don’t find that shirt I don’t know how you can go to the advancement ceremony and I am not taking off work to drive an hour rountrip to the Boy Scout store to buy you another one tomorrow either. I have to work. So DS, you need to find it tonight!
Dear work- stop being dramatic about nothing. Also the back room looks ugly especially the part near the main walkway. It looks stupid and like you put in zero effort. You have exposed electrical (in conduit so up to code) just randomly coming out of the floor and everything is open so your staff looks like a fishbowl. We’ve only been talking about this for a year and this is what you came up with. And all of this is so you can be the only one except the director with a private office. I don’t disagree that staff should move back there but it was for the wrong reasons with zero thought even though again we’ve been talking about it for a year!
Update: found the shirt. I made one more pass. It was behind the dresser in the closet. Totally couldn’t see it back there from any direction. I already spent what feels like an hour looking for it. And the last patch is not on it.
Post by mustardseed2007 on May 16, 2018 15:51:23 GMT -5
Dear WP,
I found my keys. Worst part is, I didn't stumble upon them. I just suddenly remembered where they were. (In my running shorts. I had looked, multiple times, in the pocket of some shorts that I thought I was wearing...but I suddenly remembered that those weren't the shorts I wore on my run that day).
I found them before replacing the gym card. so. DH says it doesn't make it better since replacing the gym card was free. It still feels like good news.
Signed, WM who probably has some kind of executive functioning issue
Dear Psychologist,
I was happy to hear that you think you'll be able to retest DS in such a short time. That means we're looking at less than half the cost for the parent meeting, report fee, and testing...that's a relief. Fingers crossed that we get some real answers and the tutoring doesn't skew results. Also..FX that he doesn't really have dyslexia.
Post by supertrooper1 on May 16, 2018 18:27:24 GMT -5
Dear work, I hope you appreciate me going to a work conference on my day off over 2 hours away. If you had been willing to send people, I could have switched my days off. It was a good thing that I went because I learned important stuff and made great contacts. Tired of my department training being set aside
P.S. at least I had some great food during my day trip
erinshelley21, That sucks! I swear you take it out and come home to 2 or 3 things that need to be fixed. Campers suck money even after you have it paid off. Not a fan of my camper let alone camping
2chatter, Enjoy your free day. No work, no stress, and lots of relaxing 186momx
This was after the dealer had it for 3 months doing the warranty work, fixing a list of things after last season (toilet pipe leak, DVD player, etc), and damage from something while on their lot. DH found the problem finally. Where we plug the cord from the site electrical box was fried. The new part should be in tomorrow, which is good since we need the camper again Friday! We are seriously considering trading it in for a fifth wheel with a different layout after we figure out my job and our house situation.
Dear WPs, I have been tasked with holding a daily huddle meeting. Every division has to do it. I totally see the value, but am struggling with what to discuss. I have a division of 4 people and we all sit in one tiny cube block. We talk all day long about stuff. It's supposed to be a positive, pump it up, review big goals for the day, type meeting that only lasts 5 minutes. I don't want it to be a check the box meeting. I want it to be meaningful. Any ideas on how to keep it going and useful? Does anyone else do these? Signed, Stumped
I’m on a cross functional team that does daily stand ups. We go around and every gives bullet points on what they did since the last meeting, what they plan to to today, and any challenges or roadblocks they have. Any issues requiring more than a minute of discussion get tabled for a separate follow up.
Dear Appliance Delivery/Installation Guys, Thanks for nothing. Yes, we have an old house with wonky uneven floors. But you totally could have gotten our new range installed with a little effort. Taking advantage of my non-assertive mother who was accepting the delivery to be lazy and claim you couldn’t install it because you couldn’t attach the anti tip bracket and therefore it wasn’t to code was just you being lazy. DH and I were able to install it, anti tip bracket and all, in about 15 minutes. Signed Unhappy Customer
Dear DH, Stop acting like this was the end of the world. You’re handy and figured out how to install the range with minimal effort. I know you are grumpy because you didn’t think we needed a new stove and you find it annoying that my mom gave me birthday money specifically earmarked to a stove. But I think it’s a little overdramatic to proclaim that this was “a fucking disaster” and “the biggest mess up anyone in our family has ever made”. Signed Eye roll
saraml13, call the company and complained. I did this about botch delivery with my dishwasher and they gave me extra $ off for my patience. Especially if you paid for install and they didn't install.
erinshelley21, I've noticed that it seems to take 5th wheel owners forever to set up and take down. We pull in at the same time and seemed to be ready to go a good 20 minutes earlier. To me this is important because DD and I are always super cranky by the time we pull into the campground.
saraml13, call the company and complained. I did this about botch delivery with my dishwasher and they gave me extra $ off for my patience. Especially if you paid for install and they didn't install.
erinshelley21, I've noticed that it seems to take 5th wheel owners forever to set up and take down. We pull in at the same time and seemed to be ready to go a good 20 minutes earlier. To me this is important because DD and I are always super cranky by the time we pull into the campground.
That is good to know. DH is just hoping a fifth wheel is easier to pull because we can get the same length but it wouldn't be as long coming from the hitch.