Employee discovers coworker is booking fake meetings with himself for quiet work time, debates telling boss: ‘I can't decide if this is genius or insane’

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  • My coworker has been booking fake meetings with himself for months

    A guy on my team blocks out 2 to 4 every afternoon with things like "vendor sync" and "client review." I never thought about it until
  • yesterday when I asked if he could move one and he laughed and told me none of them are real. He said if he puts "focus time" people book
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  • over it so he started giving the blocks boring meeting names and nobody bothers him. I was on lunch playing Minecraft when he sent me
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  • screenshots of his calendar and there are fake meetings going back months.
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  • The problem is our manager asked me this morning if I know what client he keeps meeting with because she wants to sit in next week. I
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  • said I had no idea. Now he is messaging me saying please do not expose his system because it is the only way he gets uninterrupted work done.
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  • I cannot decide if this is genius or completely insane.
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  • Man sitting alone at a desk, working.
  • Sharp_Measurement971 He's using it to work and so people don't bother him....whats wrong with that?
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  • mokicoo It's genius. Don't rat him out. Edited to add my reason: Guy isn't using it to go visit clubs. He's using it because people aren't respecting his work boundaries. If he can speak to it, he's golden.
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  • principium_est Warn him
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  • Trailer_Park_Stink Just mind your own business and not rat him out. You dont know anything
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  • Enigma1984 Sounds good to me, it's quite easy to lose control of your calendar if you don't do something like this. Having fake vendor calls is a bit risky, but as long as you have an answer to that question I guess it's fine.
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  • ragefulhorse You said you don't know. Leave it at that. You don't have to elaborate.
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  • Ok-Freedom-7432 What's the upside of exposing him? Just let your boss and him work it out.
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