How to politely inform your manager that their meetings are complete time-wasters? I end up working late hours because the work still has to get done. Promotion year so not trying to drop the ball lol

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Suggest alternatives and work towards the solution together. Dont just say "your meetings are useless" but provide something else like: offering to send a status email instead; decreasing/combining meetings; sending only one member of the team...

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Just only say “yes” and those one hour meetings will turn into ten minute meetings

Not about to be a "yes" man for the sake of cutting meetings short

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Put it on mute and keep working

Or sneak in your workout during the meeting

Plot twist: it's all in-person meetings...

Just because you aren't getting anything out of the meeting doesn't mean they aren't. Figure out what they're getting (or think they're getting) out of the meeting and then suggest an alternative format that'll be more productive for everyone. For example if it is a status meeting maybe you need a more detailed status tracker.

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