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So Dad, what is the worst meeting you've ever been in?

It's hard to narrow it down because I've been in a lot of bad meetings.

Haven't we all?

I can think of one where the person who was leading the meeting in this case the department head

was so upset with one person's performance

that he reined him out in front of the entire group.

And it was so bad that the person left the room crying

and the rest of us were left stunned. I mean we felt like a bomb had just gone off.

Oh my gosh. I mean where do you go from there? There was nowhere to go.

It was terrible. Well that's pretty bad but here's one that beats it.

It's from Todd Horton who worked for a company that did business in Korea.

When he was appointed marketing director and moved to Seoul, he started off his first meeting using his limited

Korean language skills. You know this is going right? He introduced himself and

said he wanted to be approachable and work closely with everybody, but apparently

his Korean was not as good as he thought.

What he actually said was, hi I'm Todd, now that I'm here, a lot will change.

I'm a communist and encourage you to bring your communist ideals

to everything we do. By working together we will conquer. I almost just can't get through that because it's so bad like can you imagine like the look

on the people's faces this is their new boss telling them that he's a communist and

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