Släppt idag! 'Swedes@meetings' av Colin Moon

Utdrag ur boken:

Every week the Swedish diary is packed with meetings – möten. Many meetings. Planned for this week are the following:

Ett informationsmöte – a meeting to inform everybody why they are at the meeting.

Ett uppföljningsmöte – a meeting to follow the last meeting.

Ett avstämningsmöte – a meeting to check what people understood from the last meeting.

Ett förmöte – a meeting to discuss the next meeting.

Ett planeringsmöte – a meeting to plan a lot of other meetings.

Ett personalmöte – a meeting to let the staff know they are at the meeting.

Ett idémöte – a meeting to discuss creative ideas which could work if people weren’t always at meetings.

Ett telefonmöte – a meeting to avoid a real meeting.

Ett frukostmöte – a meeting at breakfast time as it won’t otherwise fit into today’s busy meeting schedule.

Ett lunchmöte – a meeting at lunch time as it won’t fit otherwise fit into today’s busy meeting schedule.

Ett extrainsatt möte – an extra meeting just in case they run out of other meetings.

Ett oplanerat möte – a spontaneous, unscheduled meeting (just joking).

Ett krismöte – a panic meeting to discuss why the coffee machine hasn’t been working for two days.

Ett inställt möte – which means there is no meeting. Someone has cancelled it. And it’s too late to schedule another. (This empty hole in the diary makes life feel pretty meaningless).