At work, there are a few people who when they stand up to talk I have to prep myself for the long haul. Some people are incapable of brevity or efficiency. These are always the people who start their sentences with "this won't take very long" or "real quickly let's XYZ..."
I saw a poster somewhere that said something along the lines of "just got done with another meeting that should have been an email".
I feel like that at least 60 percent of the time.
If you start your spiel with some variation of "this won't take long"- you're lying to yourself and you're insulting whoever it is you're talking to. If what you've got to say will truly not take long then you'd just come out and say it. Including a preface makes what you're about to say take longer, and tells your audience that you are disorganized and will in fact take up a good chunk of their time.
Just cut to the chase.
If you start your spiel with some variation of "this won't take long"- you're lying to yourself and you're insulting whoever it is you're talking to. If what you've got to say will truly not take long then you'd just come out and say it. Including a preface makes what you're about to say take longer, and tells your audience that you are disorganized and will in fact take up a good chunk of their time.
Just cut to the chase.
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