👀 What is the biggest waste of time at your job?

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This may seem like the obvious answer, but I'm going to go with meetings.

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Absolutely I had an hour long meeting that we concluded we couldn’t make a decision because someone wasn’t there


So we rescheduled… after the hour

PowerPoints for project status updates to communicate up.

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Driving in.

All my tasks can be completed remotely

Having to follow up over IM or email repeatedly to get an answer from someone

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