Stupid meetings. . . . .

WARNING: I'M GOING TO GRIPE

I know that meetings are sometimes necessary and when you go into a new job they think that you don't know what is going on, but recently I've had to sit through some really annoying meetings. I have a secondary technology teaching license . . . I'm pretty sure that I know how to use most programs that are available through school district, I shouldn't have to sit through annoying useless meetings. Okay, let me give you an example: I went to my meeting today and was fairly open minded because they were (supposed) to talk about YPP and I haven't had too much exposure to that. He talked for 20 minutes about how to use a mac and what computers are available in the schools and then he started complaining about how some teachers have asked to use open office instead of switching to another word processing program. Well, open office is free it works closely like word and the office suite. But it is free. Eh, I guess they need to do what they think is correct. Then after I asked about what was really on the agenda, he got huffy. Luckily enough the board went out at that time and he spent the next 5 minutes trying to get it to work again. We all could see what he needed to do to get the board working again, but we kept our mouths shut and let him grumble until he finally got it up and running. For about 10 minutes he actually had something worth listening to because he talked about server access and the registration codes for each of the schools. Then it was back to showing up how to use the mac. Needless to say . . . I took a nap.

Eh. I just hate meetings . . . especially when they are meaningless for me.