Groupon holds thousands of meetings every day to discuss everything from company operations to strategies for making time for more meetings. Here are the official minutes from a recent meeting of our accounting department:
9 a.m. CFO calls meeting to order.
9:05 a.m. Jacob G. makes a motion for everyone to put away their Tamagotchis until meeting is over because he “can’t hear himself think over all the beeping.”
9:06 a.m. Motion rejected.
9:07 a.m. Fiscal earnings discussed.
9:15 a.m. Baird D. makes motion to repeat fiscal earnings discussion because he was not listening, but it was not his fault because he was very hungry.
9:20 a.m. Jacob G. can’t remember what he said, makes motion to abandon discussion.
9:21 a.m. Tamra L. makes motion to abandon Jacob G.
9:21 a.m. General laughter.
9:22 a.m. Tension silently mounts toward Jacob G.
9:28 a.m. Grey A. experiences a fleeting moment of extreme self-loathing. Nancy E. looks forward to humming to herself in the bathroom later.
9:30 a.m. Jacob G. makes motion to halve company zoology budget in order to get new printers.
9:32 a.m. Motion rejected.
9:34 a.m. Everyone spends one full minute coughing.
9:36 a.m. Jacob G. suggests that “everyone chill out.”
9:36 a.m. Mounting tension breaks into hand-to-hand combat.
10:12 a.m. Jacob G. badly injured, Tamra L. crowned president of the accounting department.
10:15 a.m. Bagel feast.
Tags: Behind the Deals
Shirley Crowell
onJanuary 23, 2012 3:52 am
Any chance you will be featuring Whole Foods grocers in the Denver area? I have been told you have done so in the Phoenix, AZ area.