{"id":385,"date":"2016-11-25T18:34:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T22:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:45:04","slug":"how-i-survive-corporate-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/how-i-survive-corporate-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Survive Corporate Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>(This article was originally published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingsam.com\/?p=6564\" target=\"_blank\">on my other website in March 2007<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I have a tendency to doodle while in meetings at work. Sometimes I do it just to keep myself awake. Sometimes I do it because most meetings are torturously BORING.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes&#8230; I get caught. My manager saw this first picture below in a meeting yesterday and asked, &#8220;Is that drawing of anyone in particular?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was tempting to say, &#8220;Not really. But you inspired the dumb look in his eyes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I swear that most meetings are unnecessary and contribute to the overall dumbing-down of our society. These doodles are proof of just how dumb some of us are becoming.<\/p>\n<p>(If you can decipher my handwriting, you may find tidbits of oddity here and there.)<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20070308dudeWithFangs.jpg\" alt=\"20070308dudewithfangs\" width=\"635\" height=\"911\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6558\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20060105tropicalIsland.jpg\" alt=\"20060105tropicalisland\" width=\"924\" height=\"629\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6559\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/indian.jpg\" alt=\"indian\" width=\"645\" height=\"781\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6560\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20051122theFullMagilla.jpg\" alt=\"20051122thefullmagilla\" width=\"956\" height=\"996\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6561\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/anonymousSurvey.jpg\" alt=\"anonymoussurvey\" width=\"802\" height=\"855\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6562\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20051122plutoSOA.jpg\" alt=\"20051122plutosoa\" width=\"956\" height=\"996\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6563\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This article was originally published on my other website in March 2007.) I have a tendency to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-drawings","category-thoughts-on-art-and-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doodlesam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}