Tip For Managers #3256

If you have a meeting starting at, say, 9 a.m. Try and send the agenda out, say, at least by 8:50 a.m.

If you didn't send out an agenda before the meeting start, then don't send it at 9:01 a.m. and then show up at the meeting at 9:05 and say, "Did anyone have a chance to print out the agenda?"

And especially don't feign surprise and mild dissappointment that no one printed out the agenda that was so important that you couldn't be bothered to send it before the start of the meeting.

First off, you might not have noticed but emails have time stamps. It is possible to tell exactly when you sent a document. People check that kind of thing.

Second, it is really, really hard to be in a meeting room waiting for you to show up and also be at the printer making copies. Duel existence sometimes does seem to be a job requirement, but it remains an impossibility, except perhaps for the writers of Lost.