Work idiocy

Okay, imagine this.

You’re at work, and you have a couple of projects you have to plan. You work with a few different people on these different projects, but all the projects are under the same umbrella, so someone decides that everyone’s going to attend this meeting to tweak all the projects in one go. Everyone gets an email that says “We’ll meet at this time and discuss all the plans.”

Okay, good, I put it down in my calendar and then work on other things.

Cue fuckery.

One of the people in one of the projects comes to ask me when I’m planning to call a meeting to discuss how to tweak project X. “But, but…” I go to the person who called the big plan-everything meeting and ask if I’ve misunderstood things. Turns out I have. We won’t have the time to plan all the projects at that big meeting, because we’re going to do other stuff, so I should have called a meeting of my own to discuss the project I’m in charge of. Everybody else has. So basically I’m an idiot.

Until I get back to my computer and double check that email, and yes, I was right, we were told that the big plan-everything meeting was where we would, you know, plan everything.

Now imagine this scenario is par for the course where communication and planning is concerned. Every. Fucking. Time.

OH MY GOD I WANT OUT OF HERE.