A safe space to share your honest takes on meetings that missed the mark. Whether it’s a never-ending agenda, a discussion that went nowhere, or just another “this could’ve been an email” moment, this is your zone to vent with purpose. Be real, be respectful, and maybe even help us all rethink how we meet. 
I was starting a new job and had a bunch of meetings to be onboarded. I had a new boss - let’s call him Bob. Well I had an odd meeting pop up on my google calendar titled something along the lines of “Working with Bob,” to which it was a meeting where he went through a google doc and told me how to work with his personality specifically and the way that he acts. So basically a way to justify being superrrr weird.
We just had a mandatory one-hour meeting to “align” on a project that literally boiled down to two sentences:
- “Keep doing what you’re doing.”
- “Let’s touch base again next week.”
That’s it.
That was the whole thing.
No updates. No new info. Just 60 minutes of people awkwardly nodding, pretending to take notes, and aggressively agreeing with the obvious. That’s a Monday morning in corporate America for you.
Controversial, I would rather do the meeting. 50 emails sounds horrible.
An ego this big is crazy.
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I’ll pass on the 3-hour meeting and the 50 emails