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A lad I know was off on the sick with an injury for a while on full pay, played the game, turned up to his welfare interviews with his employer, complained that his injury was getting slowly better but still keeping him at home... and only got busted because he appeared in a photo in the paper having come second in a local half marathon.
Another boy I know who was on light work duties in the office because of a supposed back issue, got pulled in for a "meeting without biscuits" because he was spotted refereeing an ice hockey game one weekend by someone from the office.
Outstanding levels of fuckery.
Huh. first time I've heard the term meeting without biscuits. I will use context clues to deduce the meaning:
A meeting with biscuits is probably a perquisite type of meeting with good news involved,
So a meeting with no biscuits would not be a friendly meeting and is punitive in nature.
Yes, your logic is pretty much spot on. Meetings that people are welcome at generally attract little sweeteners to make the meeting or conference more bearable - whether it's sandwiches, cakes, teas, coffees, or biscuits.
Generally, if you walk in to a room and nobody offers you a tea, coffee, or a biscuit - there's a reasonable chance that you're going to get your arse kicked for something.
If you don't mind me asking - have you not heard the phrase before because it's an expression you've not come across before, or is English a second language and it's meaning is implied rather than explicit? To me, your logical approach suggests the latter, and I'm asking out of sheer interest :)
This is my first time hearing this saying as well being a yank and all. Anyways, I currently work for a company that had a meeting with biscuits (doughnuts) and pretty much everyone that showed up was let go. Those that by chance had something else to do, dodged the shady way to fire people. Legal issues insu no. Needless to say doughnuts are not common around here and when they do get brought in this event always gets brought up.
Leave it to corporate America to pervert something that is supposed to be nice.