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Re:It is as if you were doing work by fomojola on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:50PM (#14699868)
Clearly it needs the following 3 things: 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. 2. It needs to randomly require that you open Google Hangouts and chat with other users. 3. It needs to send random Slack notifications.
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by majewsky on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:39AM (#14701894)
> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings.

While we're on this, can everyone please post their favorite ridiculous meeting title that is really real? I'll start with a recurring meeting series from last year that was called "mid-sprint calibration".

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Re:It is as if you were doing work by lmkg on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:04AM (#14702442)
Recurring weekly appointment "Hunt for Breakfast"

(We eventually found out Hunt was a person's name).

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Re:It is as if you were doing work by smnrchrds on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:14PM (#14705304)
It still doesn't make sense. Unless you were having Hunt for breakfast.
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by neilsimp1 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @11:18AM (#14703064)
Canceled: Weekly <Project name redacted> Project Update

This was the title of an actual, not cancelled, meeting in Outlook.

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Re:It is as if you were doing work by nneonneo on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @11:09AM (#14702978)
"Site visit, cum lunch".
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by neilsimp1 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @11:19AM (#14703076)
Do you work at Pornhub?
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by nneonneo on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @02:14PM (#14704840)
Ha, no. It should have been "Site visit-cum-lunch", i.e. a visit that is also a lunch, but someone didn't quite enter it correctly...
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by spiznnx on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:34PM (#14707328)
Now that "w/" is well understood there is no reason to ever use "cum", except maybe in phrases that are entirely Latin.
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by Toenex on Thursday July 06, 2017 @08:18AM (#14709773)
'cum louder' was once spotted on a CV under the education section. Damn that spell checker... I hope.
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by solarkraft on Sunday July 09, 2017 @10:39PM (#14733033)
Hey, they make educational videos.
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by btym on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @04:16PM (#14705768)
Weekly [Team You've Never Heard Of] Office Hours (sent to everyone in the company)
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by Cerium on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:46PM (#14703973)
"Monday Morning Meeting", routinely lasted well past noon.
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by taormina on Sunday July 09, 2017 @09:37AM (#14729664)
Monday Morning Meeting on Tuesday (MMMOT)
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by werber on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:11AM (#14702092)
Tacos, Tequila and Brainstorming (bi-weekly, friday late afternoon)
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by b3lvedere on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:51AM (#14701953)
- Teambuilding (mandatory) - Brainstorm session (mandatory) - Beer
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by chrishepner on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:51AM (#14702812)
- Leadership Content Ideation - Monthly Numbers Meeting
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by xz0r on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:13AM (#14702107)
Brown bag
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by jordanmoconnor on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:55AM (#14701984)
Mandatory Communications Meeting
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by rb1 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:08AM (#14795011)
[project name] iteration scrum Actual update

(with the random capitalisation of actual)

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Re:It is as if you were doing work by patmcguire on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:26PM (#14757552)
Google has a weekly meeting called TGIF every Thursday.
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by njloof on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:30AM (#14702216)
Boov Ear Discussion
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by wjakob on Thursday July 06, 2017 @07:02AM (#14709448)
beer o'clock
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by QuantumGravy on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:16AM (#14702127)
> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings.

Not enough to compete with the real deal. Has to have multiple team calendars, so it can support conflicting mandatory meetings so people can bitch at you on Google Hangouts and Slack afterward for missing the ones you didn't attend, even though you'd told everyone in advance that you couldn't make it.

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Re:It is as if you were doing work by jff on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @11:37AM (#14703261)
Don't forget the same meeting populated 2-3 times because somebody set up a recurring meeting invite and then made a new one and the old one never really deleted properly so you've now got the same meeting twice from 2:30-3:30 every Thursday.
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by cbhl on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:19AM (#14700469)
If it's a video game, couldn't you still use real chat apps to chat with real other users?
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by SamBam on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:54AM (#14702385)
Maybe I quit before I got to this, but I would add:

4. Time-sensitive pop-ups: things that force you to act NOW instead of ignoring them.

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Re:It is as if you were doing work by GFischer on Thursday July 06, 2017 @11:37AM (#14711179)
Yep, you did quit too early. That's a thing in the game.
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Re:It is as if you were doing work by ed_cr on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:29AM (#14700500)
ha ha yes random calendar items
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