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‘Guess who's getting billed 16h of work for a 15 minute meeting’: Customer pays their consultant 100x more than expected after requesting a meeting that could have been an email

Everyone hates attending a meeting that could have been an email… But in corporate, white-collar America, the higher-ups eagerly await every round-robin at the conference table. C-level bosses take pleasure in the firm handshakes, they enjoy flexing their power over their employees's schedule, and they really, REALLY love hearing their own voice. However, for most employees, time is money. So wasting time in a lengthy toxic-positivity meeting achieves far less than actually getting your work done. 

In this story, a consultant actually found a way to combat futile meetings and save his valuable time by speaking the only language in which capitalist America is fluent– Money. We've all heard that 'money talks' but when this company got charged 100x more than they expected for a wasteful meeting, it probably made them think twice about using Zoom for the next one. Scroll onward to enjoy this story where a consultant had an 'I told you so' moment, earning him a hefty sum and saving him tons of time in the future on senseless in-person meetings. 

Afterwards, read on about another work-related story, where a bank teller taught a customer a lesson in kindness, blocking his account as revenge for horrible phone manners and cruel behavior. 

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer
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