Friday, May 02, 2003

First week at Microsoft. Blogger Chris Sells chronicles his first week at Microsoft. I learned that folks at MS will call a meeting for lots and lots of reasons, including at the slightest sign of confrontation or hurt feelings. For a guy that hasn't really attended a meeting in the last decade, this is quite a switch : ) I learned how to schedule a meeting w/ multiple people and a conference room (listed as "conf room " in the address book), all with conflicting schedules and all remotely using Outlook Web Access and without a SmartCard (I was pretty proud of that one, actually : ) I learned that no one uses the phone for anything -- instead, they schedule meetings I learned that it's the person that wants something that does the actually scheduling of the meeting Meetings are the epitome of joy. My favorite is always the "Meeting Rationalization Meeting" when we decide which of our 40 weeklies are redundant, and can be axed. After a couple of months, though, they come back. They always come back. [The Job Blog]

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