Minutes
Posted: Sun 19 February, 2006 Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness 1 Comment »Gah, how come it takes so damn long to take typed (word-processed) minutes from a meeting, and then convert them from the abbreviated note-form style into a presentable document?
The ones from last Sunday’s charity committee meeting have just taken me somewhere around three hours to re-do into something presentable. Admittedly that includes sorting out some of the financial data into formatted tables etc., and generally make it readable, but three hours is about as long as the original meeting, which means it’s taken me six hours all told to get it sorted.
Thats, like, pretty much a full working day. Bizarre.
Maybe I need to type stuff out better in the first place, I dunno.
Learn proper shorthand lyle, or get a dictaphone………..meeting minutes are a pain in the bottom region. I prefer the dictaphone if the secretary isn’t about to do shorthand (even if it isn’t for work) then I just hand her the tape to transcribe in work time….which means the sum total of my work is handing over the tape, that and trying not to snore in the meeting.