"The Meeting"

If there's anything I really hate at work, it's "The Meeting." I find that meetings are such a waste of time. The time that goes into organizing them, waiting for everyone to stagger in, getting started, long, drawn out chatter, and the wrap up is just too much. The biggest problem I have with meetings is that people take the smallest, most trivial topic and it turns into an hour of debate and conversation. I also find that people go back to doing the same old shit no matter what is discussed in a meeting. Everyone is all pumped up in a meeting about changing something or doing something different, then when they get back to their desks all is forgotten and it's business as usual. In the age of technology, I say limit meetings whenever possible! When you HAVE to conduct a meeting, tape the mouths of the stupid, the petty, and the whiney. There's always the "funny guy" in every meeting too. The guy who has to make a comment about everything the speaker says. Three quarters of the time the comment is not funny and he is the only one who laughs. I hate meetings, but unfortunately I am off to one now...........