Spending days in back-to-back meetings are counter-productive for three fundamental reasons:

1.  They're draining,
2. Any action items ("take-aways") assigned to you can never get done, yet you'll be required to provide a status update in the next meeting, and
3. You waste time talking about the "what" and the "how" and when it gets down to the "who," it's dead silent.

Am I wrong? No. I didn't think so. 

So today was like any other day since I've been on this mammoth of a project. My Outlook calendar has been pissed off at me from day one. Not only are my days filled with back-to-back meetings, but they're also filled with conflicting meetings. The only upside to conflicting meetings are that they can be used as an alibi for not attending one or the other. In these cases, I don't go to any one of them and take guiltless two hour lunches. 

Anyway, I was running from one meeting to the next. Most of these back-to-back meetings are with the same project resources discussing current issues or addressing "show-stopper" items. So this fucking cunt, who was just in the same meeting I was in prior to the next, drops off the current conference call right at 10:00 AM to dial into the next conference call, which I lead and facilitate. It's my recurring conference call and my fucking bridge-line. The current conference call was running a few minutes over as we were all amidst finding resolution to a potential "show-stopper" issue. I had the solution, as always, so I couldn't end the call right then and there. This, of course, made me late to my next meeting; my meeting. I dialed-in seven minutes late and immediately announced myself and apologized for being late. I also explained why I was late and all but one, the fucking cunt, completely understood. This bitch had the nerve to cut me off mid-sentence!

"[Tech-Babe], before we dive in here, you really need to be a little more considerate of people's times and schedules. We've been sitting on the conference call, waiting for you, for the past ten minutes."

(Thought Bubble: NO SHE DIDN'T!!!!!)

"I understand and I apologized. But more than half of the participants on this call were sitting in the same meeting just before this one, so we were all running behind. You were on the call too."

"I'm just saying that the past few days, you've been running five to ten minutes late to every call and it looks like there's a time management issue you need to overcome."

(Thought Bubble: I'm takin' this bitch to the yard!)

"So you want to spend another five minutes talking about my alleged time management issues or do you want to get this meeting going? Like you said, we're already ten minutes passed the hour, and now sixteen. And by the way, all of these meetings that require my attendance are called by you or your project team. And most of them are "ad-hoc" meeting requests. So what do you want to do?"

"Well, if we require your input, then you need to be in attendance."

"Well, if your team would LISTEN and take notes, I wouldn't have to repeat myself three or four times before they finally understood. I'm not wasting any more time on this [you fucking cunt!]."

Right then, I glanced over to 'Sean,' my Business Analyst and 'Amy,' my Project Coordinator. Amy documents meeting minutes to 'CYA' and 'Sean' maintains the issues log. They both knew I was fired up! I proceeded.

"Sean, go ahead and add my 'need for improvement, or lack thereof, in time management' on the project's issues log."

Sean raised an eyebrow.

"Are you serious?"

(Thought Bubble: Did I fart? Yes, I'm fucking serious!)

"Yes, go ahead and add it. Issue submitted by [Cunt] on 04/29/09. Mark the status "Resolved."

[Cunt] gasped and sighed.

"[Tech-Babe] That's not necessary."

"No, to be fair, you are 100% right. If my tardiness is creating a risk for the overall project schedule, then it should be documented in the issues log. That's what you want so that's what you'll get."

"But you've asked Sean to mark it as 'Resolved.' May I ask how it is already resolved when it was just added?"

"Sure, going forward, I will block 30 minutes between every back-to-back meeting and the next time your East Coast or Central time zone people try to schedule a meeting with me at 6 or 7 AM Pacific, I have the right to decline and propose a new time to 4 or 5 PM Pacific. There, problem solved. Moving on."

You'd think the fucking cunt learned her lesson last week when she attempted to call me out via email blast! Some cunts never learn, which, in effect, makes them a cunt.