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With digital calendars, I just set a reminder 5 minutes before all my meetings. Whether it starts at 10:30, 10:35 or 10:47, I will always have time pee or grab
by pil0u 2y ago
With digital calendars, I just set a reminder 5 minutes before all my meetings. Whether it starts at 10:30, 10:35 or 10:47, I will always have time pee or grab a snack or prepare the meeting or even all of that.
- from-nibly 2y agoNot if people schedule back to back meetings. The point of starting it on the 5 and ending on 0 is that you cant schedule a meeting with no gap after the previous. You will always have at least 5 minutes.
- projectazorian 2y agoOr you could tell the people in meeting A that you have to leave 5 min early - best option if possible. Alternatively, tell the people in meeting B that you will be 5 minutes late. Lateness communicated in advance is far less disruptive than unannounced lateness. If neither of those are possible, reschedule one or the other meeting. If it's impossible to reschedule either meeting, and this happens a lot, then there's a larger problem.
- noodlesUK 2y agoI think that deliberately building in buffer so that people's expectations are explicitly set is much better than constantly having to absent yourself "early".