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[garbon]

Most of my meetings start with socializing...

[Josephus]

Yeah, we say book keeping.

[Tamas]

Most of my meetings start with socializing...

Talk about a learned social behaviour for me.  My natural tendencies combined with working with Germans for the first decade of my career resulted in my urge to just star the call and get going. But I have learned to chit-chat for a few minutes.

[Maladict]

Most of my meetings start with socializing...

Talk about a learned social behaviour for me.  My natural tendencies combined with working with Germans for the first decade of my career resulted in my urge to just star the call and get going. But I have learned to chit-chat for a few minutes.

I've found the higher your conversation partner is ranked, the longer the ceremonial chit-chat needs to be drawn out.

[crazy canuck]

Here we call it "housekeeping" matters.

But I think it is generally viewed as bad practice to start off a meeting with that.  You have everyone's attention.  Don't bore them with minor stuff right off the top.

Better to do some relationship building, talk about the important points. then leave the minor stuff for later.

[Barrister]

Most of my meetings start with socializing...

Depends on the size of the meeting, doesn't it?

If it's just a handful of people then yes - you chit-chat for a bit.  If it's a large group however you just get right at it.

And yes to answer Jos's question, I would use the term "housekeeping" mostly, but "bookkeeping" isn't wrong.

[Josephus]

Housekeeping, not bookkeeping, that's right.

[Josquius]

House keeping does ring more of a bell.

[Syt]

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Seen on Reddit today:

[garbon]

That's the net promoter score. Very common in market research and used to look at customer loyalty.

I tried to avoid it at all costs in my work but then knowing how it works I almost always rate 9 or 10 so the person helped me won't be adversely affected.

[Josquius]

NPS is the devil. I run into it so often professionally.
"would you recommend the bereavement process to a friend"
... Well... No? I hope a friend doesn't have to go through that?

[viper37]

Mass killing in Ottawa.  Suspect was living with the family.  Knife attack.  It's horrible.  A baby was killed. Don't read if you're sensible.     I regret clicking on this.  I expected some shooting, not this.

Link in French for now
Killing in Ottawa: a mother and her four children among the victims



Edit: here's CTV News.  A family of recent Sri Lankan immigrants:
19 yo charged in killing of 6 people

God. That's horrible.  Something you'd expect out of TO or MTL.  Not Ottawa.

[crazy canuck]

That's the net promoter score. Very common in market research and used to look at customer loyalty.

I tried to avoid it at all costs in my work but then knowing how it works I almost always rate 9 or 10 so the person helped me won't be adversely affected.

Yeah, most bonus programs don't kick in unless its close to 100% satisfied, so if I get those things, I routinely rate it as a 10.  Unless it was terrible.

[Josquius]

I went to the theatre for the first time in a decade yesterday.
I went to see the Bluey live show- apparently quite in demand but a friend of my gf randomly had some extra tickets.
The younglings both surprisingly loved it. So they can sit still.

The weather yesterday sucked and we already had plans shortly after so took the car to the city centre.
And wow did this experience really ram home how horribly bloated modern cars are. The multistory car park built some decades ago... finding a space was easy but finding one our car could fit in was not. It was a very tight squeeze that would have been impossible without parking sensors.
Given the nearby kids show there were a lot of similarly family sized cars about. The place was absolutely packed with cars sticking out of the spaces all over the place.

[viper37]

Boeing whistle blower found dead in US


Lots of accidents with Boeing.  Doors, gauges that stop working, anti-ice system problems, wiring problems and now a whistle blower found from apparent suicide just as he was testifying against the company.