Intro
Quick catch-up.Thirty minutes.Just bring a few slides.
Verse
Client services have booked another hour in my day,No question to resolve, just a catch-up in the name.Before we have the meeting, there's a meeting to prepare,Pull the numbers, build the story, put the logo everywhere.Take the dashboard, make it pretty, paste the same report again,Change the font, adjust the colours, send it back by half past ten.Every task I meant to finish gets another little shove,While the calendar fills up with proof of work instead of work.
Pre-chorus
It's not the thirty minutes.It's the hours you don't see.Every little quick requestTakes another piece of me.
Chorus
Another meeting that could've been an email,Another afternoon erased.I'm making slides to show you what I'm doing,While the work gets pushed another day.You sent the invite.So do your own admin.You want delivery?Stop booking it away!
Verse
Five more clients need attention, but I'm trapped in slide sixteen,Moving boxes round a timeline for a meeting about a meeting.Then we spend the first ten minutes waiting for someone to join,Read the numbers off the screen and never get down to the point.Can you send the notes around? Can you update the tracker too?Can you make another deck so we can talk about the queue?You ask why things aren't finished while you fill the space they need.My billable day is burning in your weekly catch-up feed.
Pre-chorus
Count the prep. Count the follow-up.Count the focus torn apart.Then tell the waiting clientWhy their work has yet to start.
Chorus
Another meeting that could've been an email,Another afternoon erased.I'm making slides to show you what I'm doing,While the work gets pushed another day.You sent the invite.So do your own admin.You want delivery?Stop booking it away!
Breakdown
YOU BOOK IT!YOU PREPARE IT!MY TIME IS NOT YOURS TO WASTE!DO YOUR OWN ADMIN!GIVE ME MY TIME BACK!
Bridge
If we need a decision, bring a question to the room.If it's just another update, send it through.Own the preparation for the meeting that you made.Let me do the work the client actually paid for.
Final Chorus
Another meeting that could've been an email,Another afternoon erased.I'm making slides to show you what I'm doing,While the work gets pushed another day.You sent the invite.So do your own admin.You want delivery?Stop booking it away!
Outro
Meeting declined.I'm doing the work.
