To be annoyed at my colleague?

Exactly. I have never been in an all day meeting, that doesn't pause for comfort breaks or for lunch to be brought in.

I actually think it would have reflected on OP well if she had, at one of those times, said she was going to pop down to say a quick goodbye to her friend.

However, I do know a couple of people who, in this situation, would have been so 110% focussed on being noticed by/impressing the higher ups that colleague would not merit a consideration.

Unless OP was in the Situation Room during a time of national crisis I vote YABU.

Fully agree with you. In the end OP has done nothing more than make an idiot of herself. She admitted, when the majority of us picked up on her lack of professionalism and command of the written English, that she was only invited to the meeting to take notes as she is on the project, she is not C Suite level.
She wrote the post to big herself up, and if she takes her head out of her arse and stops looking down on colleagues who she believes are lower than her she might get somewhere.
Personally I don’t have an ounce of respect for OP, I’ve worked with people on power trips and they’re not pleasant to be around.

I'm fully aware of what it means, I'm up there, but no-one I know of actually uses that term to describe themselves...maybe I just work with people that aren't stuck up their own arses though

Exactly! You can only work 6 hours without a break. You also lose concentration without breaks.

I would say that a goodbye to your colleague before Mat leave is really important!

I could never imagine making a thread about this banal incident! Hope you are OK now OP ;-)

Why is she your friend?! You sound awful!

@UndeniablyGenX

You couldn't be more wrong. His wife was a very powerful woman in her own right and highly thought of. She had taken the afternoon off work to take her son to a special awards evening and simply didn't see the badges tucked behind something on the mantelpiece. However, that's not the point. The point was, they are all human!

Yep, as the general population’s standard of spelling and grammar has been gradually going down, it follows that we also find this from people who are supposedly well-educated. I regularly receive emails from the CFO with the wrong you’re/your and there/their!! Also see it from teachers at my kids’ schools.

oops wrong thread

The word meeting came up 11 times 🤯

Totally unreasonable. You need to get over yourself and your awe of the big bosses. You werent in a meeting with God and the angels, just people the same as you and your friend. I'm sure their Very Important Minds could stay focused despite the interruption of a knock on the door and that you wouldn't have missed much.

I agree they are clustered more at the end!

I would have just said that it was something personal. Not anything for the company to worry about

@UndeniablyGenX I maintain it is bye heavy on the end part 😂

I completely agree.
Honestly I have been to so many meetings that people have thought were super important.
They really weren't in the scheme of things they were insignificant and forgotten
Good friends though have remained very important to me.

With respect this isn’t the issue, her attitude towards her colleague was certainly suggestive that she deems herself well above her, like, ‘how dare she disturb ME during this meeting’. OP is making a massive deal out of nothing, senior management would simply brush it off.
Yes, before retirement I was responsible for a large team in a senior management role. I treated them with ultimate respect and it was reciprocated. I counselled them on the rough days, we had a great relationship, and no one ever had reason to fear me or my position, my door was always open. I was rewarded with a workforce who enjoyed their job and wanted to do their best for the company everyday. I’m still in touch with some of them, they call them ‘The good old days’.
It appears that management have a different outlook in the current climate.

There are 252 words in the opening post, of which 6 are 'bye'. I'd suggest you might be overdue a visit to Specsavers 😆

All I can see is the word "bye" so many times. Is this a game?

He'd have left everyone thinking his wife was a bit useless though! I could understand it if the scout badges been squirrelled away somewhere but she could have checked an obvious place like the mantelpiece, and it's hardly urgent if their son has to wait till the next meeting to wear them - fancy ringing someone at work for that, let alone making a PA interrupt a meeting.

I agree. I am cringing at the self important nonsense of this thread.

Unless she got in the middle of OP and the amazing c suite (😂) saving someone’s life, then OP YABU.

OP is not an executive, she’s finally admitted it, but it was pretty obvious from the start given the grammatical errors etc in her post.

Completely agree.
Being invited into this meeting appears to have gone to OP’s head, I think she aspires to be further up the ladder than she is, and there’s nothing wrong with that, however looking down on colleagues and alienating them whilst climbing the corporate ladder is not the way forward. I certainly wouldn’t want her for my boss.
‘Don’t look down on anyone unless you’re helping them up’.

I worked for a huge international (and well known) company.

Years ago our MD's wife phoned and asked his PA to interrupt the board meeting he was in. The wife was due to take their son to Scouts and couldn't find his badges to see on his top and wondered where her husband had put them.

His PA wrote the message on a note, knocked on the door of the board room, and slipped the note in front of the MD. He smiled, read it out loud in front of all of the board, and simply asked his PA to ring his wife back and tell her they were on the mantelpiece!!!

We are all human with families!

@SeAmableSiempre I'm not sure the OP has claimed anywhere to be highly educated? Nor particularly senior for that matter? I think the only reference to role is that she is a project lead so I would assume not necessarily particularly senior.

But whatever, what an incredibly snobby and shortsighted post to suggest that intelligence must always go hand in hand with educational attainment. I really hope you’re not responsible for people management/development in your own role if that's your attitude.