To be annoyed at my colleague?

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I was in an all day meeting with the board/C suite in work today. My colleague/friend was in work but not in the meeting with me. It was her last day before MAT leave and it was coming up to 5pm and I was still in my meeting with the board so she came to the meeting room and interrupted my meeting by knocking on the door and then asking for me and saying “I’m sorry to interrupt but can I have a quick world please, it’s urgent”. It turns out she didn’t have anything urgent that she needed me for but she just wanted to say bye to me before she goes on MAT leave and knew that I wouldn’t be out of my meeting before 5pm when she left the building so she decide to interrupt my meeting to say bye instead. I feel a bit annoyed that she interrupted the whole meeting just to say bye to me whilst I was in a meeting with the board, fair enough if it was something urgent but it wasn’t. She could have just phoned me later to say bye if she wanted. AIBU to be a little annoyed with my colleague for interrupting my meeting just to say bye? She took me out the meeting room and just said that she just wanted to say bye to me before she goes on MAT leave and then we chatted for 2 minutes and that was it, nothing urgent at all!

this is a joke?! 😂

Is this a reverse or did you really think your friend was unreasonable for wanting to say goodbye to you on what was probably an emotional day for her.

I think one day you will look back on this and realise this was not a big thing

Nope it’s not a reverse! I just expected her to need me for something more urgent when she said that she needed a “quick word” because of something “urgent”. I personally wouldn’t have interrupted a C-Suite meeting for that but obviously she felt it was ok to interrupt my meeting for it.

It's not that deep

I don’t know what c-suite means but unless it was a one off meeting that you were central to, I don’t see the issue

No you're not unreasonable at all. Unless you aren't going to see her at all for months then it was nothing that couldn't wait. And if you have no plans to see each other or speak while she's off, then she isn't important enough friend to interrupt an important meeting.

I’m trying to stay quiet if I have nothing nice to say… 😂

C-suite just means executive board!

We had planned to keep in touch and meet up while she’s off work as I have a DD as well.

Jeez, I'm not sure I know how to articulate this in words but it's just a meeting, with people who feel like they are super super important- but in the grand scheme of your life, that meeting will not be significant to you, you won't remember it. What you will remember is moments with family and friends, that's what you need to put at the top of the super important list. Saying goodbye to colleagues on the last day before mat leave can be super emotional for some people.

Did something bad happen after stepping away for 2 mins during this all day meeting to say goodbye to someone who you won't see for months? What problem did it cause?

Is MAT leave maternity? Never seen it in capitals and shortened like that like it's an acronym

YABU for using the term 'c-suite'...who does that?! 😂

Yes that would annoy me too. Surely if you're friends you might have been able to see her another time anyway. I don't think a lot of people on here get what you're talking about OP by the looks of things.

If she was close enough to you, couldn't she just send you a text or something after? 🙈
But yeah that's pretty bad

Meetings really can be interrupted and the world won't end..and it's nice she wanted to say goodbye

It was a lovely thing to do. You really should have hugged her goodbye before the meeting though 😕

If you're a small charity she’s not unreasonable. If you’re Goldman Sachs she is extremely unreasonable. The fact that you say ‘c-suite’ makes me think it’s more the latter than the former. In which case yes she was very unprofessional.

Yes MAT leave is maternity leave.

You sound… lovely.

She was running late in the morning so I was already in the all day meeting before she got in to the office otherwise I would have said goodbye first thing in the morning before my all day meeting.

Assuming it's not medical theatre or a Downing Street cabinet meeting, I think it was fine for her to interrupt. You are being a bit harsh on her.

It’s a large national company.

C-suite means all the ‘C’s of a company - CEO, CFo (chief financial officer) etc, ie the top people of a company.

My Dh uses this term, and I always presumed he was referring to meetings held in a certain part of the office building,( ie the C-suite, ) which perhaps was where the top managers, directors etc had their offices. Didn’t realise it was a general term.