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Reality check needed

I've been feeling pretty pissed off in my role recently. Meetings are cancelled last minute all the time, there's no progress on any work due to lack of clear requirements and the meetings that are supposed to be there to facilitate setting those requirements keep getting cancelled.

This morning I have already had two cancelled meetings two hours into my workday. A colleague scheduled a call yesterday afternoon for this morning and then cancelled it early this morning. I spent time prepping for it. Then the next meeting which was already rescheduled was rescheduled again just ten minutes before it was due to happen.

Even the daily standup gets cancelled most mornings just prior to its scheduled start time.

Thing is, I hate unnecessary meetings but this is worse. It has all the downsides of a meeting, because I am expected to be prepared when they do actually go ahead, but most of the time spent preparing ends up being wasted because the meeting is cancelled.

I felt the red mist descending this morning and wanted a reality check, am I right to find this infuriating or should I just "quiet quit" and stop bothering to prepare?

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u/Johto2001 — 21 hours ago

Air quality around Gloucester today

What's up with the air quality today? Terrible in Quedgeley, which I can believe due to how bad is it in Matson, and apparently in Leckhampton too.

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u/Johto2001 — 11 days ago

Retail units in Friars Orchard

Does anyone know anything about the retail units under the flats in the Friars Orchard development? Specifically, why they seem to have been unlet ever since they were built? I see them up to let all the time but no-one seems to have tried using them as a location for a retail business. Seems strange.

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u/Johto2001 — 19 days ago

Would you give up imported luxuries?

I have been thinking about this a lot recently. I have few luxuries but one is tea and coffee. I am increasingly unhappy about the ecological impact of these though.

I already cut down on coffee and only drink it on weekends now, and only two cups then. But tea is another matter, like most Brits I live on it and drink maybe 5 to 8 cups a day or something like that.

I already gave up chocolate because of its ethical and environmental impacts.

I was wondering if others here have given up such minor luxuries?

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u/Johto2001 — 1 month ago