Meetings: the bane of productivity. A necessary evil that slowly sucks the life out of you, leaving you a hollow shell of a person, questioning every life choice that led you here.
A: A gathering of people who are all too afraid to use email or phone calls, so they just show up in a conference room and stare at each other for hours.
A: To discuss the same thing you could have discussed over email in 5 minutes, but now takes 2 hours because nobody can focus and everyone wants to make sure their point is heard.
A: Because the meeting gods demand it. You see, meetings are a form of corporate worship, and those who refuse to attend are subject to corporate retribution.
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