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!

The word meeting came up 11 times 🤯

oops wrong thread

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.

@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!

Why is she your friend?! You sound awful!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.