Trolling people's AI note takers
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Those note takes don’t actually take into account anything said before the meeting begins.
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Okay, but imagine if everybody just didn't attend. If the quick notes summarizing the meeting are enough for everybody, then the meeting is a waste of time.
If nobody attended, what would be getting summarised? I get what you’re saying, I’ve definitely been in organisations that had pointless meetings. “This meeting could have been an email” is a meme for a reason. Others though, it’s where different departments come together and share news/status, different executive/managers give run downs and updates about the company (e.g. chief of ops presents figures and areas that could be improved) and employees can ask questions about these or other pertinent topics.
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especially with your name attached.
maybe start with "hey, i'm Michail Bakunin, filling in for chris, and i'm here today to talk about syndicalism"
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See? It's just this sort of shit that kept me from locking in on the cubicle monkey grind — not for lack of trying, but for how I contributed. 
Example: once upon a time, there was a merger of two massive telecom brands (let's call them "Orange" and "Blue") and one was being subsumed entirely over the course of a year or so — including its complete customer database. Now, most of these accounts were simple enough to update & port, but someone up top decided to draw a line at a certain value and lump together alllll the accounts that were under that floor. Something about not wasting money on pros' hours for subprime, IIRC.
Long story short, it took me no time at all to write a script that did exactly what mgmt told us to do ( ~ "zero out all accounts within a certain range on either side of $0.00 via refund or extinguishment"), but since I was paid by the hour and mgmt got bonuses for how well their teams were doing, I made sure my little slop of code didn't outpace the other teams on the floor. I didn't take into account how absolutely mind-numbingly challenging it is to be in a cubicle for 8+ hrs/day with nothing at all to do...
Oh, and to further obfuscate my automation, I set it up on a few office mates' computers, too. Pretty soon, the whole team was secretly automated and straight up bored AF, so we kinda just took longer and longer lunches, more frequent smoke breaks, shared our music libraries, etc., but kept up the "barely above average, yet dedicated wage slaves" act in front of mgmt.
Imagine my face when it was not accolades we received once the jig was up.
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Kinda off-topic, but am I the only one who usually joins meetings five minutes early? I hate being late, and that way I give myself five minutes of peaceful troubleshooting time if my mic doesn’t connect, for example.
Man, just do it like the rest of us and join on time. Then realize you forgot to do sth/take a break/whatever and just claim the 5 minute troubleshoot time claiming your mic doesn't work, while you go to the toilet.
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Kinda off-topic, but am I the only one who usually joins meetings five minutes early? I hate being late, and that way I give myself five minutes of peaceful troubleshooting time if my mic doesn’t connect, for example.
Back to back meetings has entered the chat
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"How much is Chris making in Q2 by being trapped on a sinking ship?"
wrote on last edited by [email protected]If the ship is a metaphor for today's world affairs, I'd say record profits!
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that's the fun part about working in old european industry: we get six weeks, but everyone has to take them at the same time, and at that time the factory just... shuts down.
Oh wow that really sucks.
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If you get sufficient value out of a 30 second summary of an hour long meeting, then why have the hour long meeting?
(h)(n) + (t)(p) = W
(h length of meeting in hours) x (n number of people in the meeting) + (t number of hours prepping the meeting) x (p number of people prepping the meeting) = W number of work hours spent on this meeting. Multiply W by the average hourly wage. That's how much money the meeting cost. And that doesn't factor in the cost of productivity loss because everybody could've been doing something useful with that time instead.If it could've otherwise been ten minutes of writing an email and five minutes per worker reading and understanding it, then how is it anything other than an efficiency gain to just make that meeting an email? Instead, we're still putting the meeting together just to then pay in resources and possibly subscription cost to have the meeting summarized instead of just having the host do it in the first place.
I find the summaries pretty worthless but a transcript is super useful
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Sure, but you know how else you could give that information to the client and have them respond back?
By emailing the deck and asking for their thoughts.
We don't really need to coordinate having an hour window in everybody's schedule anymore.
Reading through a random deck is not remotely the same as watching a presentation
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Kinda off-topic, but am I the only one who usually joins meetings five minutes early? I hate being late, and that way I give myself five minutes of peaceful troubleshooting time if my mic doesn’t connect, for example.
I show up a couple minutes late because this should have been an email.
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A real hero would start talking about viagra and car insurance, and get the meeting emails flagged as spam.
Something like my dick is so hard right now that I can barely steer the car right?
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I show up a couple minutes late because this should have been an email.
True. Some folk don’t work. They send appointments.
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A real hero would start talking about viagra and car insurance, and get the meeting emails flagged as spam.
Just start reading subject lines from spam emails.
"You've won $10,000! -- Horny women in your area! -- Real Casino Viagra Casino Bitcoin Casino Viagra! -- There's a package awaiting your confirmation!"
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Kinda off-topic, but am I the only one who usually joins meetings five minutes early? I hate being late, and that way I give myself five minutes of peaceful troubleshooting time if my mic doesn’t connect, for example.
That would annoy me, since Teams shows a "meeting started" popup when the first person joins a meeting.
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🤌 See? It's just this sort of shit that kept me from locking in on the cubicle monkey grind — not for lack of trying, but for how I contributed.
Example: once upon a time, there was a merger of two massive telecom brands (let's call them "Orange" and "Blue") and one was being subsumed entirely over the course of a year or so — including its complete customer database. Now, most of these accounts were simple enough to update & port, but someone up top decided to draw a line at a certain value and lump together alllll the accounts that were under that floor. Something about not wasting money on pros' hours for subprime, IIRC.
Long story short, it took me no time at all to write a script that did exactly what mgmt told us to do ( ~ "zero out all accounts within a certain range on either side of $0.00 via refund or extinguishment"), but since I was paid by the hour and mgmt got bonuses for how well their teams were doing, I made sure my little slop of code didn't outpace the other teams on the floor. I didn't take into account how absolutely mind-numbingly challenging it is to be in a cubicle for 8+ hrs/day with nothing at all to do...
Oh, and to further obfuscate my automation, I set it up on a few office mates' computers, too. Pretty soon, the whole team was secretly automated and straight up bored AF, so we kinda just took longer and longer lunches, more frequent smoke breaks, shared our music libraries, etc., but kept up the "barely above average, yet dedicated wage slaves" act in front of mgmt.
Imagine my face when it was not accolades we received once the jig was up.
Ooohwhee, were they pissed.Sounds like they should have been paying you appropriately enough to care
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Kinda off-topic, but am I the only one who usually joins meetings five minutes early? I hate being late, and that way I give myself five minutes of peaceful troubleshooting time if my mic doesn’t connect, for example.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I'm hyperpunctual too, but I stopped doing this when Teams started pinging all invitees as soon as the first person shows up, because now showing up 5 minutes early just means the meeting is 5 minutes longer.
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If you've already made sure the mic and camera are working, you don't need to enter the 2nd meeting 5 minutes early to make sure they work.
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I'm hyperpunctual too, but I stopped doing this when Teams started pinging all invitees as soon as the first person shows up, because now showing up 5 minutes early just means the meeting is 5 minutes longer.
I go for not being the guy to start the meeting, but being prepared to join the second someone does.
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That would annoy me, since Teams shows a "meeting started" popup when the first person joins a meeting.
Sounds like a(nother) Teams issue.
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Literally one of the only good apllications for AI.
Really?? All the AI note takers I've seen suck farts.
