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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 67 points 11 months ago (9 children)

lol do office job meetings actually tell you that because that’s hilarious

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah it happens a lot (well with at least 10 mins more). At my job people are given 40 hours (or more, without overtime) of work to be done, and then call meetings that eat up into those hours, so ending early gives people back the time the meeting took away from them.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Naw. Naw man. Shit naw man I believe you’d get your ass kicked for saying something like that man.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nope, it's a real thing. Granted, I mostly see it used when a meeting ends 30-40 minutes early.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s a quote from Office Space.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Ahhh, ok. Never seen it, I'm afraid.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes

I’ve been told I’ve been given “the gift of time”

Edit: This is how I read your comment: https://youtu.be/guv5LUT1AFw

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am a dumbass trades guy so I definitely sound like that a lot to office guys lol

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Honestly there’s so much dumb shit like that I wish I could say

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hear it at the end of almost every single meeting and it's typically for less than five minutes. I've had people get near the end of a meeting, extend it by half an hour, but only go 15min over, and then still say they're giving us time back

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

They are giving negative time back.

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Yeah, although I appreciate those minutes because my dailies overlap with the time interval my body decides is time to take a shit

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

In my experience it's usually when the meeting ends like 30 minutes before it's scheduled to.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Sometimes I get a 1 hour meeting ending in 20 min.

I'm glad to hear it.

[–] Darkmuch@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Eh, I hear it a lot at my job. But that’s because meetings usually go way longer than they should. So anytime it ends early people are quite pleased.

[–] expr@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah.. I do hear it a lot.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago

Boss does it regularly