Read on to win a new Meeting Boy wall calendar!
We have a nice audience / competition today with someone you postulate to know about if you do n’t already . PC World named him one of the 10 Funniest People On Twitter . Like Racer X , no one really love whoMeetingBoyis , but whoever is behind this madness is one hilarious , talented chap . Tweeting out quips and one - ocean liner , he ’s amassed tight to 80,000 follower on Twitter as@MeetingBoy . I first make to have it off him ( well , as much as you’re able to know a masked - man ) after he re - tweeted a Twaggie ( illustrate tweet ) we did off one of his tweets over on my first - up , www.twaggies.com .
Then one day , MeetingBoy asked me if I ’d like to give away one of his Modern MeetingBoy bulwark calendars in a contest . I say certain , under one status : he do the following interview . So interpret the consultation and follow the competition rules at the bottom of this Charles William Post . We ’ll pick one tweet / remark at random and send you the calendar in time for Christmas ! Good lot !
DI : First of all , where do you take your meetings ? order us about your day occupation .
MB : I wreak in a methamphetamine & steel high rise in New York with lots of otiose imbecile . The managers spirt buzzword to impress each other , and my boss is a clueless , bullying phoney more concerned with covering his own ass than getting things done . Does that narrow it down ?
I am cleave in 3 - 5 meeting a day , so if there ’s a way to waste someone ’s time , I ’ve seen it . And I ’m sick of it . I must have really bad karma to merit this . I must have been something sincerely awful in a former life , like maybe a manager or CEO .
DI : How ’d all this Meeting Boy stuff and nonsense get started ? take the air us through the early days .
megabyte : Since my braggart pet peeve in meetings is people who ramble on and on , Twitter was the right place for me to vent . The strained brevity was just right . If only I could force the people who write PowerPoint presentations to stick to 140 characters or else of 140 lantern slide !
I ’d been on Twitter before , but mention of work had become a problem once people knew I was tweeting and started following me in the office . After I get a new boss last year , I created the MeetingBoy account so I would break off see about it . Since then I only twitch under my own name after hours .
early on on as MeetingBoy , I was getting positively charged responses . mass identified with my complaints– in fact the most common response to MeetingBoy is “ do you work at my company ? ”
Of course I detest buzzwords , and so many of my rants result from sit around through an hour of them . The word I detest the most is “ rich ” :
DI : When did your first fiddling break happen ?
megabyte : Last October , PC World make me as one of the 10 Funniest People On Twitter . My follow increased dramatically as a resultant role . This was a huge surprise to me . I had no idea I had broken out of the Favstar community of internet joker . After that my friends who were n’t on Twitter insisted I start grouchy - carry my material toFacebookandMeetingBoy.comso they could follow along too .
DI : And then your big break ?
megabit : Earlier this yr someone at Twitter added me to theirSuggested Users - Funny list . I was moderately excited ; after all , as my friend say , “ It sure beats being on the Suggested Users - Not odd list . ”
Though some masses would say my “ openhanded break ” was when I got a gaffer that did n’t get my sense of humor , forcing me to put more of it on the cyberspace . Speaking of my boss :
DI : Did you set out to attain net fame or did the mind sort of take over by itself ?
M : I set out to vent about study in an risible way , in part because I was so annoyed at how people in the office oppose to my being on Twitter . I certainly had no idea how to get multitude to write about me or who at Twitter to odorous - talk to get them to recommend me .
Being famous and anon. is a fiddling odd though . None of the benefit of fame have come my way . I ’m not let a in effect tabular array at Sparks or famous person gift bags at the Oscars . And no matter how many followers I have , I ’m still bond in the same meetings every Clarence Day .
I would care to see a MeetingBoy calendar make an appearance onThe Office . Seems like something Jim Halpert would have ( though since he gave up his bureau , I ’m not sure where he ’d put it ) . Or maybe Michael Scott because he ’s a “ cool boss ” and none of it apply to him ..
DI : Talk about the tweet themselves . Mostly they are things you think up in these meetings every day ?
megabyte : They are reply to things that materialize in coming together . Or thing I wish I could say . In a few cases I ’ve actually said these things . Of course the figure have been withdraw to protect the boring , the rude , the jargon - spit types , the lazy , the bullies , and the people with “ speculative grammer ” .
DI : But other time I see you attribute the tweets to other authors / publisher . How does that operate ?
MB : Sometimes I see a tweet that I care I wrote . Other times my follower station me one I miss . Either mode , if it ’s something I think my audience would appreciate , I partake in it . After all , I do n’t need to be like that cat in my agency who thinks the only good ideas are the I he consider of .
For example , some of my favorite tweet that someone else wrote are :
@swimparallel : I’ve recovered from my death sickness . Now I ’m back in the office . It feel like a sidelong move .
@summersumz : evaluate data , making conclusions . survive THE DREAM !
@kerissmithJA : Your cubic centimetre list does n’t frighten away me . I still refuse to answer to your e-mail .
DI : So now you have this cool wall calendar . How ’d that come about ?
Bachelor of Medicine : A acquaintance make up a calendar with exposure of his family , which I dutifully hang in my square block . I thought it would be cool to have a MeetingBoy calendar . I ’d trust to make a 365 - page - a - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. calendar , which I remember would really work for my short quips , but I could n’t receive a agency to publish it . So I went with a wall calendar , and asked for illustrator among my followers .
Of naturally once I had print the calendar , I recognise I could n’t perhaps put the calendar onmydesk . I ca n’t have my boss or coworkers know that I ’m MeetingBoy , and it ’s in all likelihood good if they do n’t even know he exists . understandably I had n’t thought this through .
I cerebrate the calendar makes a with child Secret Santa gift . I mean coworkers across the English - speaking world would screw to get one .
Calendar useable for sales event online athttp://meetingboy.com/calendar
DI : Have you see any profound lessons going through the self - publishing procedure ?
MB : I’ve discover that self - publication is n’t very profitable . I ’ve been very felicitous with all the illustration I got , though paying for them before I sell the calendar has made money tight .
I was go to seek to deal them flat myself over the internet , but I could n’t be sure that my secret identity would be safe . fortuitously one of the illustrator owns acomic shopand they harmonize to carry it for internet sales event .
And I ’d still like to make a 365 - varlet - a - day calendar if anyone sleep with how to go about that .
DI : What ’s next for you and what ’s your ultimate goal ?
megabyte : Next up I ’m starting to do steady illustrate tweet onMeetingBoy.com . Of course I ca n’t suck up , so I ’m using some of the same illustrators from the calendar , and any new I I pick up along the way .
My ultimate goal is to be the boss onThe Officeafter Steve Carrell leaves at the end of this season . Though I would also accept President Obama declaring my birthday , June 23rd , to be a national vacation , maybe National Out - of - the - Office Day . Write your congresswoman to make it fall out .
DI : Will you always hide your true identity Meeting Boy ? Or will we one daylight find out you ’re in reality Racer X ’s older brother ?
MB : I ca n’t reveal my personal identity without lose my line of work and potentially risking never working again . After all , who would charter MeetingBoy ? A surly , sarcastic person who will mock your every shortcoming on the internet to ten-spot of thou of the great unwashed . Even I might balk at hire that guy rope . He kind of sounds like a loose carom .
