“"The meeting was booked for an hour. We covered his weekend, my weekend, the weather, where to get lunch, and where his family is going in July. With five minutes left, he reached the reason for the meeting: is Monday a holiday?"”
Validated & mostly ignored
::RESPONSE::
The Office acknowledges that "is Monday a holiday" is a question the calendar had already answered.
The hour was found to be a fixed allocation. Conversation expands to fill the time scheduled for it; an hour was scheduled, and so an hour of weather, vacations, and lunch was produced. The Office considers this working as designed.
Why the hour was booked at all was ruled outside this Office's jurisdiction and referred to the Department of Things Everyone Knows But No One Will Say.
Your experience is validated in full. Monday is a holiday. This was confirmed in the final ninety seconds, by a colleague, on her phone, reading the same calendar that had scheduled the meeting.
::DETERMINATION::
Escalated to Pending, where it joins 3,907 related filings. A motion to reclaim the unused fifty-five minutes was approved; the minutes were reinvested in a standing weekly sync. The standing weekly sync also has no agenda.
::DETERMINATION:: Business Prevention Department · Disposition
All parties have been enrolled in mandatory Meeting Cadence & Engagement Certification. The course meets for one hour. Roughly five minutes concern the material.
::STUB:: Get Out of Meeting Pass
The bearer is excused from one (1) scheduled meeting of any length, presented to the organizer in lieu of attendance. No reason need be given. None will be accepted.
[ ] Time exempted is deducted from the bearer's available paid leave
[ ] Deduction is taken at the meeting's full scheduled duration
[ ] A sixty-minute meeting held for a five-minute matter debits as sixty minutes
This card is provided as a courtesy. It is, on balance, not a savings.
::SIGNER::
D. Standing
DELORES STANDING — REVIEWING OFFICER — BUREAU OF ACKNOWLEDGED GRIEVANCES
::DENY:: the return of your hour
