"I'm not doing the minutes! I'm not a secretary," says Norma.There was considerably more along this line. In the end...
"Everyone else in every other meeting takes their own minutes. Why should you be any different?"
"Why can't Maudie take the minutes for us?"
"Maudie's busy enough as it is. There are minute-taking courses you can go on if you're worried about it."
"We don't have time to do the minutes," says Hedi.
"You'll have to write the minutes for the meeting once every twenty-seven months. It's not a big deal."
"Well, I don't have the time to do the minutes," insists Norma.
"You could do it when you're on the enquiry desk. Perhaps instead of spending all your time emailing your family and booking holidays."
"OK, that's enough. No minutes, no meetings. Full stop. End of. Now let's move on to the next part of this meeting's agenda shall we?"
The Branch Managers are threatening to take this dispute to the court of T.Aldous. One of the reasons why T.Aldous has his 'phone through to Maisie is so that Norma can't try and have a hotline to his highness.
4 comments:
Even when I was an MD - no, make that particularly when I was an MD - I always took the meeting minutes. That way, I could be sure that the proceedings were recorded as I wanted! An opportunity missed by your Managers I think....
Precisely so: I've always said that the person with the most power in a meeting is the one who does the published minutes.
I know nothing about proper business meetings - just various societies so I thought the secretary took the minutes. It always seemed a good idea to avoid being secretary or treasurer.
Part-timers. I had to take the minutes when I was allowed into meetings, simply because I was the lowest life-form there. I tried to make them funny. Then they stopped me.
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