Why do people like meetings so much?

Makes the people that don't do anything....feel like they are doing something.

Meetings are power trips. With the cell phone and email, nearly all meetings have been rendered useless. I’ve sat in meetings where the boss tells us stuff he already told most of us individually. They want to hear themselves talk and want to know that you have to be there to listen.

I think people who don’t know how to, or don’t want to, complete a task like to schedule meetings in the hopes of pawning it off on someone else.

When I worked for LSU, we literally had a meeting to discuss the meeting we were about to have and when the second meeting was over, my boss would tell our team to stay behind for a quick meeting to discuss the meeting we just had. Three meetings! It would take half the day

I've realized over the years that a lot of the production meetings we have internally or with customers seems to be cover your arse deals. Everyone is trying to figure out how to pass along work to other people, and not get blamed when shite hits the fan.

I detest meetings.

I have to sit through a lot of meetings that really don't have anything to do with me. I just mute myself and do other work or play on my phone.

My biggest pet peeve is when people forget I'm on ET and schedule calls at 6pm my time.

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Makes the people that don't do anything....feel like they are doing something.

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This. Im offshore and the amount of meetings we have with the offices in Houston is absolutely ridiculous. 80-90% of the meetings we have mainly discuss POB and logistics for projects that are 6-8 months down the road and EVERYONE knows that its all going to change 46 more times between now and then.

Like the first response said, its to make those that dont do much feel like they actually have input and gives them something to justify themselves.

I love zoom meetings with clients. I am currently on a Zoom call with a client charging our hourly rate on the center monitor while taking notes (cough cough responding to you) on the right monitor while keeping an eye on ESPN on the left monitor.

There seems to be some psychology at work that causes Zoom calls to be much longer than phone calls when you charge by the 1/10th of an hour it is a bonus.


Sports Center just showed a commercial for Legal Zoom, some sorta meta shite going on.

I have to have weekly meetings with my damn builder to help keep him organized. I don’t understand how some people make it to adulthood.