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One of the things I have learned is that a lot of middle management don't have tangible roles, so they make up for this by recognition, which is usually "presence." So they have meetings to be seen, stay relevant, and look important. Like, how do you measure management as a product? It's a social game, primarily. I'm not saying all or any large percentage of management is like this, but there are a LOT.

"What do you say you DO here, exactly...?" And they start to sweat.

Edit: Clarifying I know there ARE effective ways for an organization to do this, but that doesn't mean they do or even know how :/

What do we label the elevator doors when they open and blood gushes out?

I stopped trying to get work done. I chill on sites like Lemmy between meetings. My micromanagers don't notice because they're all in meetings. I'm not worried about not looking busy. Everyone else is too busy trying to look busy to notice that I don't look busy.

Some of our clients spend over half the budgeted hours holding us in meetings. Meetings help the people that don't actually do anything seem valuable by looking busy. Once we, the people that actually do the work, finish our task successfully, the meeting attendees take a victory lap and congratulate each other for their amazing teamwork. We don't mind.

Im on some uselessly large distribution list at work for some eternally failing project that I don't work on.

They most recently announced a new framework of extra meetings to try to turn things around ...