Stupid Meeting Tricks, Customer Edition
Apr. 27th, 2022 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerA few weeks ago I wrote a blog entry titled Stupid Meeting Tricks. It was about 5 sadly common fails people make in attending meetings unproductively or canceling them at the last minute. Just yesterday I saw an intriguing new form of meeting fail. I'm going to call this one, "Did you just drunk-text me a meeting invite?"
So, yesterday afternoon a customer invited me and a sales colleague to a meeting to discuss their use cases. It is a four hour long meeting. With no clear agenda. And less than 24 hours notice.
As if that weren't already ridiculous enough, he invited one of our competitors to the meeting, too. Like, we're supposed to share our project plans with someone literally trying to take that business away from us.
Oh, and the invite was full of spelling errors. There were 3 in the first sentence alone.
Sadly— or gladly, I'm not sure— this invite is legit. The customer's company culture really is rotten enough that they plan a four hour long meeting, with only a vague agenda, and ask everybody to come to it. 🤦♂️
So, yesterday afternoon a customer invited me and a sales colleague to a meeting to discuss their use cases. It is a four hour long meeting. With no clear agenda. And less than 24 hours notice.
As if that weren't already ridiculous enough, he invited one of our competitors to the meeting, too. Like, we're supposed to share our project plans with someone literally trying to take that business away from us.
Oh, and the invite was full of spelling errors. There were 3 in the first sentence alone.
Sadly— or gladly, I'm not sure— this invite is legit. The customer's company culture really is rotten enough that they plan a four hour long meeting, with only a vague agenda, and ask everybody to come to it. 🤦♂️
