diff --git a/Jenkinsfile.meta b/Jenkinsfile.meta
index bac9969..0a4459f 100644
--- a/Jenkinsfile.meta
+++ b/Jenkinsfile.meta
@@ -107,6 +107,16 @@ node {
 				sh '.scripts/builds.sh --cache cache-builds.json sources.json > builds.json'
 			}
 		}
+		stage('Janky') {
+			// ideally, the other jobs that act on the data generated by this one would directly reference each Jenkinsfile.* from *within* the ".scripts" submodule that this job has updated (so that we only run updated scripts with updated data, in the case of something major changing for example)
+			// Jenkins *does* technically support this, but it requires disabling "lightweight checkout", and doing the full checkout of "meta" (even just making sure it's up-to-date) *just* to grab a single Jenkinsfile from the .scripts submodule is really heavy and kicks over our Jenkins server
+			// to mitigate this, we "copy up" the Jenkinsfiles directly into "meta" so that we can go back to a "lightweight" checkout
+			sh '''
+				rm -rf .jenkins
+				mkdir .jenkins
+				cp -av .scripts/Jenkinsfile* .jenkins/
+			'''
+		}
 		stage('Commit') {
 			sh '''
 				git add -A .