Anonymous wrote:Bob sounds like he is insecure and wanted to flex on someone during his once-every-three-month meetings

I wouldn't have taken his crap either. I would have said, once, that I'm capable of remembering without taking notes and if he pressed again I'd ask how much company time does he want to waste on this matter. And then I'd write down his answer.

You need to humiliate bullies like this.

No, actually, you need to humor the person asking you to write something down rather than escalate the situation like a defiant teen.

I'm curious whether Bob is actually a Bob and not a Barbara.

Anonymous wrote:If you take notes for a meeting and then send them out. You own the meeting as it's your take on what happened and assigning action items.

This, if there are no minutes, likely its as if the meeting never happened. If you take the minutes, you can craft the narrative and have it backup your take on decisions down the road.

If anyone is paying attention calls you out, you simply thank them and say you misheard -- its such an advantage.

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Anonymous wrote:Really not sure why you didn’t right it down. He was an ass with his reaction, but I am pretty high up and have been asked by my boss to take notes at a meeting. I would never say no.

So if your boss tells you to write down "Eat lunch at noon." You're gonna do it? You're just some sheep that engages in obedience theater?

Clear indication that OP has ODD

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really not sure why you didn’t right it down. He was an ass with his reaction, but I am pretty high up and have been asked by my boss to take notes at a meeting. I would never say no.

So if your boss tells you to write down "Eat lunch at noon." You're gonna do it? You're just some sheep that engages in obedience theater?

What boss is going to ask me to write out “take lunch at noon” during a high level meeting? Are you an idiot?

If the boss wants it documented that she said to take lunch at noon.

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Anonymous wrote:Really not sure why you didn’t right it down. He was an ass with his reaction, but I am pretty high up and have been asked by my boss to take notes at a meeting. I would never say no.

So if your boss tells you to write down "Eat lunch at noon." You're gonna do it? You're just some sheep that engages in obedience theater?

Yes. Being an employee involves a significant degree of obedience theater.

As for that matter, does being your own boss, because you always have a client of some kind.

In the words of Mr. Dylan, "You've got to serve somebody". And, given that most people are idiots, or at least willfully ignorant in various ways, that will involve doing some crap that you know is pointless some of the time.

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Anonymous wrote:What a stupid reaction to your boss in front of his subordinates. What was the point of that? Right, there wasn't one. You sound like a jerk.

Learn to read, wee todd. It's not his boss. It's the general manager. That could be a completely different department. Do you take orders from the accountant in the Akron branch?

If the accountant in a GM and I'm far enough below them on the org chart, absolutely.

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Anonymous wrote:Really not sure why you didn’t right it down. He was an ass with his reaction, but I am pretty high up and have been asked by my boss to take notes at a meeting. I would never say no.

So if your boss tells you to write down "Eat lunch at noon." You're gonna do it? You're just some sheep that engages in obedience theater?

What boss is going to ask me to write out “take lunch at noon” during a high level meeting? Are you an idiot?

Write it down dummy.

I'm sick of my staff who think they can remember all the instructions I give them without writing it down, and then deliver sub par results, without the details I asked for.

It just causes me more work and I detest it. And they are too obtuse to dense to realize when I give them feedback and say "like I asked you in the beginning" that they screwed up.

I also make comp decisions and these people get lower raises and bonuses than the reliable staff who make my life easier

Anonymous wrote:There must be more to the story maybe your relationship in the past isn’t good because why not just write it down? It is a weird hill to die on. If I am in a meeting and a boss or colleague asks me to write something down, I would. It’s just weird to refuse to do so.

I'm guessing you are known to forget things.

Bob sounds like he is insecure and wanted to flex on someone during his once-every-three-month meetings

I wouldn't have taken his crap either. I would have said, once, that I'm capable of remembering without taking notes and if he pressed again I'd ask how much company time does he want to waste on this matter. And then I'd write down his answer.

You need to humiliate bullies like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Really not sure why you didn’t right it down. He was an ass with his reaction, but I am pretty high up and have been asked by my boss to take notes at a meeting. I would never say no.

So if your boss tells you to write down "Eat lunch at noon." You're gonna do it? You're just some sheep that engages in obedience theater?

No, I'm a person who has chosen to work for my boss. And I am eating lunch at noon, apparently.

Let me understand this situation.
OP took the time to write down this instance. But their is no pay for writing on DCUM.
But then OP doesn’t write down anything at a meeting where there is pay involved, as in a salary.

Anonymous wrote:What a stupid reaction to your boss in front of his subordinates. What was the point of that? Right, there wasn't one. You sound like a jerk.

Learn to read, wee todd. It's not his boss. It's the general manager. That could be a completely different department. Do you take orders from the accountant in the Akron branch?

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Anonymous wrote:Really not sure why you didn’t right it down. He was an ass with his reaction, but I am pretty high up and have been asked by my boss to take notes at a meeting. I would never say no.

So if your boss tells you to write down "Eat lunch at noon." You're gonna do it? You're just some sheep that engages in obedience theater?

If I work for them, sure. Start your own business if you can’t follow other people’s rules.