Comments on: Calendar and scheduling bad habits http://www.dadams.co.uk/2008/10/06/calendar-and-scheduling-bad-habits/ "I don't celebrate the magical thinking that says one random point in the space-time continuum is somehow special" - Scott Adams (via Dilbert) Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:15:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk/2008/10/06/calendar-and-scheduling-bad-habits/comment-page-1/#comment-908 Darren Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:52:42 +0000 http://www.dadams.co.uk/?p=472#comment-908 @4 - what I could do is write Hall of Shame entries as blog entries and categorise them as Hall of Shame, and then you could pick the Hall of Shame category making it a Hall of Shame page whenever you want it. @4 – what I could do is write Hall of Shame entries as blog entries and categorise them as Hall of Shame, and then you could pick the Hall of Shame category making it a Hall of Shame page whenever you want it.

]]> By: Ports http://www.dadams.co.uk/2008/10/06/calendar-and-scheduling-bad-habits/comment-page-1/#comment-907 Ports Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:25:30 +0000 http://www.dadams.co.uk/?p=472#comment-907 Could I put in a vote for the return of the Hall of Shame :-) Could I put in a vote for the return of the Hall of Shame :-)

]]> By: Pete http://www.dadams.co.uk/2008/10/06/calendar-and-scheduling-bad-habits/comment-page-1/#comment-906 Pete Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:46:00 +0000 http://www.dadams.co.uk/?p=472#comment-906 Daz, could'nt agree with you more mate. Trouble is, I fear that alot of it is due to lazyness and the fact folk just can't be bothered to fill out a form correctly. I suggest next time you receive one of the offending invites, cattle bolt ...back of their head...they won't do it again ;-) Daz, could’nt agree with you more mate. Trouble is, I fear that alot of it is due to lazyness and the fact folk just can’t be bothered to fill out a form correctly. I suggest next time you receive one of the offending invites, cattle bolt …back of their head…they won’t do it again ;-)

]]> By: Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk/2008/10/06/calendar-and-scheduling-bad-habits/comment-page-1/#comment-905 Darren Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:12:30 +0000 http://www.dadams.co.uk/?p=472#comment-905 Possibly the worst I ever encountered was an invite sent by a manager's assistant... bearing in mind that the repeating meeting involved about twenty people, the names of the attendees were contained in the subject field (along with the location of course). If that wasn't bad enough... Every time the status of one of the attendees changed (e.g. if someone couldn't attend) I'd get a reschedule. But it wasn't really a reschedule as the time / date / location hadn't changed, but the subject had changed to included "Apologies from..." followed by the name of the latest person to drop out. This meeting was also my reason for mentioning #3 - in the middle of so many subject changes the location also changed, but as the location was in the subject field it just looked like the subject had changed yet again. I provided some 'education' to the meeting's chairperson. Possibly the worst I ever encountered was an invite sent by a manager’s assistant… bearing in mind that the repeating meeting involved about twenty people, the names of the attendees were contained in the subject field (along with the location of course). If that wasn’t bad enough…

Every time the status of one of the attendees changed (e.g. if someone couldn’t attend) I’d get a reschedule. But it wasn’t really a reschedule as the time / date / location hadn’t changed, but the subject had changed to included “Apologies from…” followed by the name of the latest person to drop out.

This meeting was also my reason for mentioning #3 – in the middle of so many subject changes the location also changed, but as the location was in the subject field it just looked like the subject had changed yet again. I provided some ‘education’ to the meeting’s chairperson.

]]> By: Lewis http://www.dadams.co.uk/2008/10/06/calendar-and-scheduling-bad-habits/comment-page-1/#comment-903 Lewis Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:07:45 +0000 http://www.dadams.co.uk/?p=472#comment-903 Darren, as we've discussed F2F, I couldn't agree more with you. Here's one I got sent recently, I think it captures your point perfectly. All the data below was sent as the *SUBJECT* of the call! I particularly like the repetition of the UK Conf call number! (Some content edited for privacy)... NOTES: JOHN SMITH TO OPEN CALL ================================= Something Lunch n' Learn Call ================================== Subject: The Something Wiki (See Details below) Presented by: John Smith ================================== Notes: Pls try to attend these calls ================================== PARTICIPANT PASSCODE: 12345678 BIRMINGHAM: 44-121-210-9008 0800-279-9274 GLASGOW: 44-141-202-3208 0800-279-9274 LEEDS: 44-113-301-2108 0800-279-9274 LONDON: 44-20-7984-7591 0800-279-9274 MANCHESTER: 44-161-601-1408 0800-279-9274 USA 866-326-9183 Darren, as we’ve discussed F2F, I couldn’t agree more with you. Here’s one I got sent recently, I think it captures your point perfectly. All the data below was sent as the *SUBJECT* of the call! I particularly like the repetition of the UK Conf call number! (Some content edited for privacy)…

NOTES: JOHN SMITH TO OPEN CALL
=================================
Something Lunch n’ Learn Call
==================================
Subject: The Something Wiki (See Details below)
Presented by: John Smith
==================================
Notes: Pls try to attend these calls
==================================
PARTICIPANT PASSCODE: 12345678
BIRMINGHAM: 44-121-210-9008 0800-279-9274
GLASGOW: 44-141-202-3208 0800-279-9274
LEEDS: 44-113-301-2108 0800-279-9274
LONDON: 44-20-7984-7591 0800-279-9274
MANCHESTER: 44-161-601-1408 0800-279-9274
USA 866-326-9183

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