Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: so, i had been working with a company for four or five months. it's a media company of sorts. i've been working very closely with the business strategy since then and when the owner started considering a parent brand, he invited me and two others (one that i'd worked closely with already, and one that i was meeting for the first time) to get together and discuss. so we all did. the meeting was kind of an open discussion and he didn't get very specific on his vision. it was somewhat unclear to all three of us what he was expecting from us. but it was clear he wanted us to act something like a team and something like board members, maybe for equity, maybe for salary. or maybe those were separate ideas. it wasn't clear. i don't know how he expected that first meeting to go with the three of us, but it was timid and none of us were getting a sense for each others abilities, or what to really expect.

so, i did what felt natural to me--i approached the two of them to discuss candidly what we thought was going on and what we thought we needed to get to have a more productive meeting next time. it wasn't intended to be any kind of secret meeting or anything, but it didn't seem like something the owner needed to be there for either. in fact, i thought, he'd probably slow it down since the discussion was less about the business and more about us. during our unsanctioned meeting, we really just discussed what we thought the potential of the idea was and how we thought we could individually contribute to that, but also what kinds of questions we needed to ask so the next official meeting could be really productive.

well, the owner had a big deadline coming up and after the unsanctioned meeting, i didn't immediately email him because i knew he wasn't going to be able to address it at that point anyway.

well, the owner called me today with some good news about his project deadline, he was in a very positive mood, and then i told him since his deadline was up, that the three of us had gotten together and come up with some questions that would help us move foreword in discussion.

that's when the shit hit the fan.

that was apparently a huge faux pas. we have a pretty close relationship, but suddenly he was very mad, and veiling accusations of shenanigans. then he said he'd never be able to trust any of us again. while no alarms were going off for me when i was getting together with them, as he was talking, i started to see it from his perspective. although, i think i would have responded differently if i were in his shoes, i can see now why he got upset and i wish i'd seen it sooner and either not had the meeting, or been discrete about the meeting. there never were any shenanigans, it was just three people wanting to make this person's thing a success and talking about how we might be able to work together to do it. i'll know better next time, or i'll be more transparent in both directions.

to an extent, part of me feels like i dodged a bullet in the whole thing. the owner would apparently prefer to operate more secretively than i would. i believe in a healthy dose of transparency, he apparently does not. in fact, he apparently said varying things to all three of us before that first official meeting. it looks like a power tantrum of some kind to me, but perhaps that's what he needs to make this work, and if that's the case, it's better that i'm not involved anyway.

lessons learned. discretion, even when it doesn't seem necessary, is usually the best policy, and transparency in only one direction is an incendiary round waiting to go off.

TIFU by arranging an unofficial business meeting for a new startup