The 3-hour agenda creep
Meeting was scheduled for "30 minutes max" in the calendar invite. 3 hours later, we were still "just wrapping up" with no end in sight. I missed my kid's school play for a meeting about "meeting efficiency".
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Meeting was scheduled for "30 minutes max" in the calendar invite. 3 hours later, we were still "just wrapping up" with no end in sight. I missed my kid's school play for a meeting about "meeting efficiency".
Intended to share my presentation deck. Accidentally shared my desktop instead. My Slack was open with a DM to my wife about how boring this meeting was. The CEO was presenting.
Spent 10 minutes passionately presenting my quarterly results to the entire executive team. Camera off, mic on... except it wasn't. My mic was muted. They just watched me animatedly talking to silence for 10 minutes before someone finally messaged me.
Replied to a meeting invite with "Can't wait, NOT" intending to message my coworker. Hit reply all instead. The organizer was my boss's boss. The meeting was about my promotion.
Joined a client call 5 minutes early. Made small talk about my weekend for 4 minutes before realizing I was talking to a client we had fired months ago. They didn't say anything. Just let me talk.
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