[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> As I stated earlier, I don't feel that feeding information back into > the company calendar is important. If you are scheduled to take a day off next week, and one of your co-workers wants to schedule you for a meeting on this day, do you think that it's important for your co-worker to be able to discern from looking at the calendar that you won't be in on this day? > The problem is, at least in big companies, that people feel the need > to schedule meetings far too often when a simple e-mail conversation > would suffice. In general, people also seem to rely upon meetings to > avoid having to make decisions on their own. I tend to agree. (I think that other factors that contribute to this are that some people don't have the reading/writing skills or the attention span or the attention to detail to be able to discuss an issue via email and come to a problem resolution...or else they just want to drag out the process so they can play politics or stoke their egos or even get the meeting catered so they can try out some delicious Italian pastries...(note, none of these complaints refer to my current job)) > In case anyone hasn't figured this out yet, I really find the > "Exchange way of doing things" quite annoying. Actually, to the > point of being rude, presumptuous, and quite impersonal. But I > won't pontificate on that here, at least not now ;) > thoughts OTOH, where I work, if I'm invited to a meeting, it's for a good reason, and I do have to say that having some notion of a shared calendar does seem to be worthwhile. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) cetaceannetworks.com!kclark (GnuPG ID: B280F24E) alumni.unh.edu!kdc ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
