Shrek is life

Now I’m wondering about any other movies without much cuts and timeskips but manage to have a massive character arc.

You can spend like 3 hours preparing for your day and there’s characters that are entirely different people by the first 90 minutes.

Imagine a character that wakes up and goes on a massive adventure in realtime, they go on a character arc and end up as barely the same person before they even eat lunch

I’ve known some excellent upper management in my life who can turn 3 bullet points into a 60 minute meeting that turns into 90.

So are you saying Shrek could have been an email?

90 mins meetings aren’t bad, talk to someone that has to sit in on milestone reviews for spacecraft, which can last 8 to 12 per day for several days. You haven’t lived until you have heard about how heat transfer works in space using esoteric dry math for six hours straight.

I read the name Shrek, and almost instantly my brain hits play on Smashmouth… “some-body once told me…”

Obligatory [I’m going to watch Shrek in my head](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/ckuuxl/im_just_going_to_watch_shrek_in_my_head/)

To be fair I believe the movie takes place over about 4-5 days, but yeah 90 minute meetings suck.

Yeah Ron, this new reporting set up is just that complicated. And in two weeks we’ll have to have this call again because people like you are just dozing off thinking about Shrek and not taking any notes.

Well, you can do all that if you wanna be a fucking Orge!

*Ok… Let’s just go over the action planner*

me, silently waiting until they get to my damn department.

What’s a rundown?

It’s like cooking and eating. It takes forever and a half to prepare a meal but only a few minutes to sit down and eat.

White collar workers bitching about sitting through meetings is hilarious. Their jobs are so easy that listening to people speak for long periods of time is the most loathesome part about it

🤣

Most work related meetings involving statistics and strategies can be crunched down to 15-30 minutes but no, the employer demands awkward questionings as of why the results were as it were because the employer isn’t involved with the company, just basically counting the days until the next car into his collection arrives.

As the managers are already 100% informed of the reasons causing how and why, why not just have a meeting with the managers?

Experiencing this both as a working minion and a manager, I see why the film “Office Space” is the cultural remark that it is.

The meetings I’m in usually have a slide deck custom crafted to the audience. It has high level overviews and detailed points backed with facts and data that are relevant to the audience.

The audience just usually goes off the rails on the first slide and starts asking a bunch of questions. Questions that are typically answered with one of the following.

Yes we verified with so and so.

That’s later in the deck.

Let me back up two slides and answer that.

That’s not relevant to the scope of this project.

We don’t have funding to do that.

When we presented the project request you didn’t want to fund doing that.

We have a meeting with so and so because they won’t sign the request with out further information.

Nothing changed since the last time we presented this.

Everything has changed since the last time we presented this because we had to refresh our quotes that were over a year old.

Ect ect.

So inevitably the meeting schedule for 30mins that should take 15mins, ends up taking 60+mins.

Long meetings are great! That means fewer things to get through in the day.

“No, sorry, I won’t be able to get to that today… my boss had me in a 2-hour meeting this morning.”

A lot of management’s main job is justifying their job.