Because who needs a clear agenda or a defined purpose, anyway?
Required Attendance is a special kind of meeting where you're forced to be there, even if you have better things to do.
Like that one thing you've been putting off for weeks, but now you're stuck in this windowless, soul-sucking conference room instead.
Meetings where the only decision is whether or not to bring your lunch.
Meetings where the most exciting thing to discuss is whether or not the coffee machine is working.
Meetings where the only thing you're really required to attend is your phone, because you need to scroll through Twitter.
Meetings where you're stuck with the same 10 people for 3 hours, and the only conversation is who's turn it is to use the microwave.
Meetings where the only goal is to slowly drain the company's coffee machine of its last drops.
Meetings where the only thing you're really required to bring is your A4 notebook, filled with doodles of your cat.
Meetings where the only thing you're really required to do is stare blankly into space, waiting for someone, anyone, to say something.