Annoyances

I attend two kinds of conference calls on a monthly basis.  One is a human resources meeting and the other is an accounting & finance (A&F) meeting.  They are both scheduled for the same amount of time.  The HR meeting goes on for-ev-er (meaning they always start late and end even later than scheduled) and it’s blah, blah, blah, blah and when they ask, “What does everyone think?” people actually answer—all of them, and at length in an excessive and highly irritating touchy-feely way.  The numb spot in my forehead grows exponentially as the minutes tick away.  I never feel a sense of definitive closure in an HR meeting—generally, I’m more confused than when I started.  The A&F meeting starts, information is imparted, questions are answered, and the meeting is always over in half the time scheduled  The A&F meeting leaves me feeling sunny, bright, and gay (oh, wait, I was that way before the meeting).   What does this all mean?  Besides the fact that some people annoy the hell out of me.

Time to check my hormone levels, I have a feeling something’s amiss.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. 
~ Kin Hibbard

Oct 26, 2006