I don’t know what it is about meetings but if you contribute to their setting up and provide one or two insightful comments, middle management offers generally tend to flood in. Meetings and producing reports.

I produced a report on the frequency of meetings, which concluded that, “meetings are good”. This report was then discussed at an executive management meeting and the findings relayed through our director at our section meeting. It appears Management agreed with my findings adding the word “very”. “Very meetings are good”.

Another meeting was held to look at the placement of the word “very” in my initial statement and it was decided by a majority (eight votes to five) that the statement should read “Meetings are very good”.

I now have a car space in the buildings basement, my gross annual salary has increased by $12,000 and the Chief Executive Officer chatted about the intricacies of Thai cooking with me at the urinal on Tuesday afternoon – I stood there nodding intelligently, offering timely remarks and praying for my stream to begin – all due to that single report.

I’m currently working on another.