Work- the four letter word.

[samaritan1975]

So, we had this meeting, right- we had been asked to go over the 'life of a trade' for our auditors, and, since I'll be heading up the responses to auditing projects that are coming our way, I got to lead the meeting.

I was prepared- had all the documentation, knew it'd be between 6 and 8 people, plus my boss and myself.  Printed out trade tickets, settlement records, reconciliation files, the works.  

So, when I'm handed a document, a flowchart of our procedures- one I hadn't seen before, no less- I get a little irked.  Not that I don't know what we do and how we do it, but 1) this is not what the meeting was scheduled to be about, 2) I just wasted a good hour of my time getting the documentation I brought and now you don't want- or even need- to see it, and 3) the time that was slated was not nearly enough to go through everything in detail.  

Oh, and- 2 hour meeting?  Yeah.  Good idea to book a room for just one hour, and think, "Oh, we'll just find somewhere else to hold the 2nd hour."