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Vent: Spent 3 hours prepping a client meeting only to find out they wanted a 5 minute phone call
I dug through 2 years of their analytics data and made a 12 slide deck, but when I hopped on the call they said "oh I just needed a quick yes or no on the deadline." Has anyone else had clients waste your time like this where you could have solved it in 2 sentences?
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the_john1mo ago
12 slides for a yes or no question... @logan271 you could've just texted them back.
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wesley6391mo ago
12 slides is just bad form. A quick text with 'lunch?' would take 5 seconds. If Logan actually needed an answer to something critical, that's even worse. Nobody reads 12 slides for a yes or no. It's just noise.
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taylor_wells13d ago
12 slides for lunch? That's overkill for sure, but here's the thing nobody's talking about - maybe Logan's boss or client saw that deck and now thinks he's a total brown-noser. @wesley639 you brought up the noise angle and that's exactly right, but it's worse than that. All that effort for a simple yes or no could make the higher-ups think he's wasting time on fluff instead of actual work. I've seen it happen at my old job where a guy put together a 20-page report just to ask for a deadline extension, and management started questioning everything he did after that. So yeah, it's not just about the wasted slides, it's about the impression it leaves.
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