Message #74258

[gee4]

No Marie.  No agenda for the first meeting because I'm guessing no one knew or planned the structure, and no minutes from the first meeting hence me being the only one to carry out an action.

I suggested future meetings are minuted and an action list circulated and was informed it will be raised at the next meeting.  So you can assume no minutes for yesterday's meeting either.

It was agreed yesterday that a template would be devised and circulated to each of the secretaries to complete.  We have been asked to break down our tasks into average hours which the tool will then automatically calculate into a percentage.  It should have been done that way in the first place instead of me wasting my time on an action no one else bothered about.

I couldn't agree more...there is a total lack of organisation.  When my boss saw the email about the template today he was surprised and asked me what it was about.  I began to explain to him what happened at yesterday's meeting and how I was the only one who had actioned a request.  He agrees with me that it's nonsense and that HR should have been driving this from the start.  At least as his secretary I did what was asked of me.

It is clear I have a completely different attitude to this exercise than the other secretaries.  Is that because I am the newest member of the group and haven't been around too long or because they have been stuck in a rut and are disgruntled with management?