Meetings Without A Point
A group of exhausted office workers sit through a long meeting while staring at charts, notes, coffee cups, and an agenda that never seems to reach a conclusion.
Modern meetings no longer require a purpose, a decision, or even a basic outcome. As long as someone shares a screen and says “quick sync,” the meeting automatically expands to fill the entire hour. Digital work culture now runs almost entirely on video calls, calendar invites, apps, and the quiet fear that somebody will ask for updates you forgot existed.
Technology promised efficiency, but AI scheduling tools and workplace automation mostly succeeded in creating more notifications. Every meeting somehow includes a pie chart nobody understands, action items nobody remembers, and at least one person pretending their microphone is broken. Even smart devices seem exhausted by the process. Office Wi-Fi struggles harder during meetings than at any other moment of the day (see https://www.chadgeepeety.com/cartoons/fast-wi-fi-slow-printer).
The strange part is that nobody wants to cancel these meetings because everyone assumes somebody else understands the point. By the end, there are follow-up meetings scheduled to explain why the original meeting solved nothing. Chad has seen this cycle before (see https://www.chadgeepeety.com/cartoons/turn-it-off-and-on-again).
The longer the meeting lasts, the less anyone remembers why it started.
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