Today felt like a waste of time. I spent my day bouncing from meeting to meeting but none of it was about anything just “alignment.” Anyone else feel like some of their coworkers just host meetings to kill time?

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I wanted to get a bit of writing done but instead I get to answer the same questions over and over

It's definitely possible that that's exactly what they're doing. I'm fully convinced some of my colleagues just have jobs in theory but don't actually do anything.

Now to just figure out how to pull it off myself… I don’t want to do as much work

There are some meetings which are useful and necessary, but most of the ones I've been in lately have been pointless. Some people seem to like having meetings to perform, at least it seems that way to me. I try to be a good sport and be congenial in meetings, but I would almost always rather be doing actual work.

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