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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 65 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

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

It’s a quote from Office Space.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

They are giving negative time back.

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] Darkmuch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

I'm glad to hear it.

[–] expr@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah.. I do hear it a lot.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Boss does it regularly