Director This Is Why I Hate December Meetings

[Nanisu]

Me (at our meeting in November): ?Do we want to have a cluster meeting in December? In the past it's been hard because everyone is so busy".

Team: "No, of course we want to!!!! Let's do a cookie exchange"

Me: "Ok, if we do a cookie bake, can everyone bring something for the recipes?"

Team: "Great idea. This will be so fun!!!!"

2 weeks later, send out ingredients lists. 1 week ago, follow up. Yesterday, follow up again.

Meeting is in 30 minutes, house is clean, gifts are bought and wrapped for the team, and 3 of them TEXT me to tell me they aren't coming. 30 minutes before the meeting. Oh and of course their ingredients won't come either.


This is why I hate December meetings.
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[cmdtrgd]

Hugs!How do you explain to them that it affects you and the rest of the team without sounding like a whiny b*tch? I have the problem of people not coming almost every month! And, my director (NED!) isn't doing meetings anymore, just "cluster visits"!!! If nobody shows, I'm not going to invite her!

 

[finley1991]

{{{hugs}}}

 

[dannyzmom]

I am so right there with you. At my Nov meeting I reminded everyone of the date of our Dec meeting and they all fussed & begged me to reschedule it to the 14th. Wanna guess how many showed up tonight? 4

 

[PCJenni]

I had mine the first week of the month to avoid this type of thing and we had a really good turn out.

 

[Nanisu]

I thought if I had them all bring ingredients, they'd acutally see it as a committment to attend....we had a fun time anyway. My dh came out to the table and gave us all the spin on the new cookie press from an engineer's point of view--he helped with the cookie press and helped make the rice crispy treat ornaments--he's pretty funny so they all were laughing at him, it wound up being fun for those who showed up. It's just annoying that someone would TEXT me at 5 p.m. to let me know they weren't coming (and therefore not bringing the ingredients either). But it wound up being fun.

 

[cmdtrgd]

Um, yeah. My meeting was supposed to be tonight. I'm tired of busting my butt and nobody coming, so I texted to see if they were - hadn't even gotten RSVPs and they knew the date TWO months ago! Only one person might have come, she has a 3 month old baby and isn't even on my team yet! So, I cancelled and I'm having a nice dinner with husband in a somewhat cleaner house - didn't get finished before texting and having them say "oh, yeah, I can't come" @#%$