Do you have a meeting coming up that you desperately wish you could get out of?
Try this nifty trick that I picked up from my boss.
- Find a meeting at least 1 week in the future and click “Propose New Time” (or whatever the non-Outlook equivalent is in your mail client).
- Make up a believable excuse for pushing the meeting back 15-30 minutes and put it in the proposal comments.
- Set the date to 15 minutes and 90 years in the future. The 90 years is crucial because 2100 is on the same daily structure as 2010 and shares the same digits, so it is easy for someone to overlook.
As long as it is at least a week into the future, there is a good chance that the person will completely forget about it since it will no longer show up on their calendar to remind them.
If they do catch the date, you can always claim that you fat-fingered the date by accident.
Now go forth and use all that time that you’re going to gain back for the powers of good.
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