Today I have invented my own piece of corporo-babble ‘Action creep’. Action creep comes about when you have so many meetings that you can’t action the actions from the last meeting in time as you are in more meetings getting more actions. And so they then build up. Do not get me started on what would happen if your buckets of task were to overflow.
I have also been involved in some top tier contractual negotiations of late:
A – You owe us money
B – Do we?
A – Yes, we paid for X and it turns out you were supposed to.
B – But you paid for it, we asked if you would pay and you did.
A – Yes, but I’ve just checked the contract and it turns out you were supposed to pay
B – Where in the contract does it say that?
A – I’m not going to tell you
B – No seriously, if it says it tell us where
A -If you don’t know I’m not going to tell you.
B -Riiiiight. But you’re asking us to pay money back so is the onus not on you to show us where it says we should?
A – *silence*
If anyone needs me I will be in Vienna.
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